Fates and Furies
About this book
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed.
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends. But sometimes it's what you don't say-- to protect your partner's vanity, their reputation, their heart-- that makes a marriage hum. Until it doesn't ...
Subjects
- contemporary women
- couples mariés
- dramatists
- dramaturges
- emotions
- english literature
- family life
- fiction
- fiction / contemporary women
- fiction / family life
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction / literary
- friendship
- interpersonal relations
- jealousy
- large type books
- literary
- love stories
- man-woman relationships
- married people
- married people, fiction
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:hardcover-fiction=2015-10-04
- roman familial
- romans, nouvelles
- secrets