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Matrix / Lauren Groff.

Groff, Lauren, (author.).

Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781594634499
  • ISBN: 1594634491
  • Physical Description: 260 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, [2021]
Subject: Marie, de France, active 12th century > Fiction.
Nuns > Fiction.
Faith > Fiction.
Visions > Fiction.
Great Britain > History > 12th century > Fiction.
Genre: Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 58 of 60 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 60 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Abington Community Library FICTION GROFF (Text) 50687011738708 Adult Fiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library FICTION GROFF (Text) 50686016086543 Adult Fiction Available -
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library F GRO (Text) 37268003115946 AHMFL Adult Fiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library F GRO (Text) 33240004925890 Adult Fiction Available -
Annie Halenbake Ross Library F Gro (Text) 00151016 ADULT Fiction Available -
Bangor Public Library F GRO (Text) 75011000362233 Adult Fiction Available -
Bethel Tulpehocken Public Library GRO (Text) 33249024482741 Fiction Available -
Blossburg Memorial Library F GRO (Text) 30063000256679 Adult Fiction Available -
Cambria County Library FICTION Gro (Text) 85131001793901 CACM Fiction Available -
Coudersport Public Library FIC GRO (Text) 30183000958908 Adult Fiction Available -


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