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020 _a9781594634499
_q(hardcover)
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050 0 0 _aPS3607.R6344
_bM38 2021
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100 1 _aGroff, Lauren
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aMatrix /
_cLauren Groff.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bRiverhead Books,
_c2021.
300 _a260 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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520 _a"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, Matrix 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 Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world"--
_cProvided by publisher.
561 _5DLC
653 _aFellow
653 _aEllen Maria Gorrissen Fellow
653 _aClass of Spring 2023
710 2 _aGene Berry and Jeffrey Campbell Collection (Library of Congress)
_5DLC
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776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aGroff, Lauren.
_tMatrix
_dNew York : Riverhead Books, 2021
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