Matrix / Lauren Groff.
Record details
- ISBN: 1594634491
- ISBN: 9781594634499
- ISBN: 9781594634499 : HRD
- ISBN: 1594634491 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781594634499
- ISBN: 1594634491
- Physical Description: 260 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "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?"--Provided by publisher. |
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Subject: | Marie, de France, active 12th century > Fiction. Nuns > Fiction. Faith > Fiction. Visions > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 59 of 62 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Janet Carlson Calvert Library.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 62 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Janet Carlson Calvert Library - Franklin | F GRO (Text) | 33345000336156 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Matrix : A Novel
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Author Notes
Matrix : A Novel
Lauren Groff graduated from Amherst College and received an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her books include The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds, and Fates and Furies. Arcadia won of the Medici Book Club Prize. Her fiction has also won the Paul Bowles Prize for Fiction, the PEN/O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines including the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Tin House, One Story, McSweeney's, and Ploughshares, and in the anthologies 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and three editions of the Best American Short Stories. (Bowker Author Biography)