MAUREEN CORRIGAN, BYLINE: Biographers of Charles Dickens tell us that even though his novels were published monthly, occasionally even weekly in serial form, he would customarily work out their sprawling plots in his mind well in advance, sometimes making diagrams on great swathes of paper. Lauren Groff is a young writer who's already garnered serious acclaim for her novels, "The Monsters Of Templeton" and "Arcadia." Her third novel, "Fates And Furies," has just been published, and book critic Maureen Corrigan has more words of praise for Groff's writing, with some qualification. A singular and compelling literary read, populated with extraordinary characters highly recommended.This is FRESH AIR. An intricate plot, perfect title, and a harrowing look at the tie that binds." Kirkus (starred review) "Like a classic tragedy, Groff's novel offers high drama, hubris, and epic love, complete with Greek chorus-like asides. The plotting is exquisite, and the sentences hum Groff writes with a pleasurable, bantering vividness. His wife, the imperial and striking Mathilde, takes over the second section, Furies, astir with grief and revenge.
Lotto's name evokes the lottery - and the Fates, as his half of the book is titled. The story centers first on Lancelot "Lotto" Satterwhite, a dashing actor at Vassar, who marries his classmate, flounders, then becomes a famous playwright. They were reduced to mouths and hands." This opener ushers in an ambitious, knowing novel besotted with sex - in a kaleidoscope of variety - much more abundant than the commune-dwellers got up to in Groff's luminous Arcadia (2012). Groff's sharply drawn portrait of a marriage begins on a cold Maine beach, with newlyweds "on their knees, now, though the sand was rough and hurt. Yet so much of the power in this book lies in what's unspoken.It's an intoxicating elixir." Publishers Weekly (starred review) "An absorbing story of a modern marriage framed in Greek mythology.
Because she's so vitally talented line for line and passage for passage, and because her ideas about the ways in which two people can live together and live inside each other, or fall away from each other, or betray each other, feel foundationally sound and true, Fates and Furies becomes a book to submit to, and be knocked out by, as I certainly was." - Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Interestings "In a swirling miasma of language, plot, and Greek mythology, Groff weaves a fierce and gripping tale of true love gone asunder.Groff's prose is variously dewy, defiant, salacious, and bleak - a hurricane of words thrown together on every page. "With Fates and Furies Lauren Groff goes many levels below the surface of a marriage, into a place that is perhaps as hard to reach as it is to describe, but Groff, a bold and marvellous writer, is able to do both.
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