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Matrix A Novel
Groff, Lauren Editeur: Riverhead Nombre de pages: 272 Format: 130/203/20 Langue: Anglais Article manque momentanément	ISBN: 1594634505 EAN: 9781594634505 N° OLF: 9549140 Façonnage: Poche format B Date de parution: 06/09/2022 Catégorie: Littérature	Prix: 13,90 € Tva: 5,5% Ajouter au panier

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AN INSTANT
WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

One of Barack Obama''s Favorite Books of 2021

Named a Best Book of the Year by
“A relentless exhibition of Groff’s freakish talent. In just over 250 pages, she gives us a character study to rival Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell .” –

“An electric reimagining . . . feminist, sensual . . . unforgettable.” –

“Thrilling and heartbreaking.” –
<“[A] page-by-page pleasure as we soar with her.” <–New York Times
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One of our best American writers, Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking

Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease.

At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie’s vision be bulwark enough?

Equally alive to the sacred and the profane,

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