![]() ![]() ![]() For a medium-sized novel that focuses in tightly on two characters and their over-20-year marriage, "Fates And Furies" vacuum packs so many complex narratives between its covers that you feel like you're reading one of those plot-heavy Victorian door stoppers. I imagine that Lauren Groff, like Dickens, must have begun her new novel, "Fates And Furies," by mentally mapping out an aerial view of its zigzagging, unflagging tour de force of a plot. MAUREEN CORRIGAN, BYLINE: Biographers of Charles Dickens tell us that even though his novels were published monthly, occasionally even weekly in serial form, he would customarily work out their sprawling plots in his mind well in advance, sometimes making diagrams on great swathes of paper. Lauren Groff is a young writer who's already garnered serious acclaim for her novels, "The Monsters Of Templeton" and "Arcadia." Her third novel, "Fates And Furies," has just been published, and book critic Maureen Corrigan has more words of praise for Groff's writing, with some qualification. ![]()
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