You're publishing a new novel, "Fates and Furies," in September.
Lauren Groff's books include the novel "Fates and Furies" and the upcoming short-story collection "Florida".
The thing about SG Browne is, he's a romantic – and his second novel, Fated, is a book for anyone who believes that love is destined.
To qualify as the US book of the year – that ineffable title to which Lauren Groff's third novel, Fates and Furies, lays persuasive claim – a novel needs more than just blockbuster sales.
We hear a crackle, then… Formally, Lauren Groff's new novel, "Fates and Furies" (Riverhead), resembles a bed that long marital use has unevenly depressed: it tells the story of an… The poet John Wieners lived, from the early nineteen-seventies until his death, in 2002, at the age of sixty-eight, at 44 Joy Street, in Boston,… The Blue Guitar, by John Banville (Knopf).
Formally, Lauren Groff's new novel, "Fates and Furies" (Riverhead), resembles a bed that long marital use has unevenly depressed: it tells the story of an apparently successful marriage from two different perspectives, the husband's and then the wife's, and it explores the fierce asymmetry of the two tellings.
Lauren Groff's new novel, Fates and Furies, tells the story of that marriage from the vantage point of both parties: Mathilde, the beautiful, poised, reflective woman, and Lotto, her husband, a beaming, bearlike playwright who lives for the grandiose.
In 2015, he surprised observers with the revelation that his favorite book of the year was not a serious political work or biography, but the perspective-shifting literary novel Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff.
But when he stood on stage to receive the award, for his short-story collection Fortune Smiles, Johnson seemed stunned, and barely mentioned his own book as he paid tribute to his fellow finalists – among them Lauren Groff and Hanya Yanagihara, whose novels Fates and Furies and A Little Life had seemed to be the two frontrunners.
Atkinson gives her rueful detective Jackson Brodie a break for this playful, profound novel about fate, destiny and alternative realities.
