Matrix - Large Print by Lauren Groff (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Meet the indomitable Marie De France. Born from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet too coarse, too wild, too rough-hewn for courtly life, Marie de France is cast from the royal court. Woefully, she is sent to the muddy fields of Angleterre to take up her new duty as the prioress of an impoverished abbey. The abbey is a dreadful place--its inhabitants are on the brink of starvation, beset by disease, stoic and stern, yet plagued with an unholy tendency to gossip. Marie cannot help but pine for the decadence and comfort of France, her secret lover Cecily, her queen Eleanor and the very court that had spited her. Yet Marie soon realises that, though she may be tied to a life of duty, she wields more power than she could have imagined. With the fearlessness that has always set her apart, she inspires her new sisterhood to awaken their spirits and finally claim what is theirs. A dazzling work of literature, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality and ecstasy in a mesmerising portrait of consuming passion and womanhood.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b><b><b><b>AN INSTANT <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER <p/> FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION <p/>One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021</b> <p/>Named a Best Book of the Year by <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The Washington Post</i>, <i>TIME</i>, NPR, <i>The Financial Times</i>, <i>Good Housekeeping</i>, <i>Esquire</i>, Vulture, <i>Marie Claire</i>, Vox, <i>The Los Angeles Times, USA Today</i> and more!<br></b><br>"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 ." - <i>USA Today</i></b> <p/> <b>"An electric reimagining . . . feminist, sensual . . . unforgettable." - <i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i></b> <p/> <b>"Thrilling and heartbreaking." -<i>Time Magazine <p/> </i>"[A] page-by-page pleasure as we soar with her." <i>-New York Times<br></i><br> One of our best American writers, Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking <i>Fates and Furies</i>.</b><br></b></b><br>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. <p/> 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? <p/> Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, <i>Matrix</i> gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff's new novel, her first since <i>Fates and Furies</i>, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Lauren Groff is a two-time National Book Award finalist and the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of the novels <i>The Monsters of Templeton</i>, <i>Arcadia</i>, and <i>Fates and Furies</i>, and the short story collections <i>Delicate Edible Birds </i>and <i>Florida</i>. She has won the Story Prize and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Groff's work regularly appears in <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>The Atlantic</i>, and elsewhere, and she was named one of <i>Granta</i>'s 2017 Best Young American Novelists.
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