Fates and Furies: A Novel Audiobook

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• “Fates and Furies is a dazzling novel, its people and its prose wondrously alive from page one. At once intimate and sweeping, this is the story of a marriage as parallel myths— flaring with passion and betrayal, with redemption and retribution, with the sort of heart-breaking, head-slapping secrets that make you want to seek out someone else who’s read it. Lauren Groff is a powerful and graceful writer, one of the best of her generation.”

  — Jess Walter, New York Times bestselling author

• “Fates and Furies raises—and answers, in its own compelling ways—big questions like: What is a happy marriage? Do we need to keep secrets in order to be loved? What are the stories we tell about ourselves to others? Fates and Furies is the perfect book to take you from summer to fall, a vivid and exciting page-turner that is freighted with deep meaning.”

  — BuzzFeed

• “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. Yet so much of the power in this book lies in what’s unspoken…An intoxicating elixir.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Like a classic tragedy, Groff’s novel offers high drama, hubris, and epic love, complete with Greek chorus–like asides. A singular and compelling literary read, populated with extraordinary characters; highly recommended.”

  — Library Journal (starred review)

• “Dark and dazzling…[Groff’s prose] seduces the reader as much as the golden couple at the center of the compelling story…Taking a page from Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl–like view of marriage, Groff fashions a searing, multilayered portrait of a union that seems to thrive on its darkest secrets.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “The plotting is exquisite, and the sentences hum; Groff writes with a pleasurable, bantering vividness. An intricate plot, perfect title, and a harrowing look at the tie that binds.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “Lauren Groff’s gripping new novel is told in two parts, his and hers, which makes it perfect for a dual narration…the performances are superb. The book examines a long, passionate marriage. First Will Damron performs the story according to Lancelot, known as Lotto, an actor turned playwright whom the fates have blessed in many ways. Julia Whelan delivers Mathilde’s version, which stuns with all that Lotto never knew or guessed about his wife, so polished on the outside, so gripped by furies within.”

  — AudioFile