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Winner of the National Book Award
- Author
- Jincy Willett
- Narrator
- Susan Boyce
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 27 August 2022
- Run Time
- 10 hours 20 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Set in Rhode Island, Winner of the National Book Award tells the story of twins who could not be more different.
Abigail Mather is a woman of passionate sensual and sexual appetites, while her sister, the book loving local librarian Dorcas, lives a quiet life of the mind. But when the sisters are sought out by the predatory and famous poet, Guy DeVilbiss, who introduces them to Hollywood hack writer and possible psychopath Conrad Lowe, they rapidly become pawns in a game that leads to betrayal, shame and ultimately, murder.
Darkly comic and satirical, Jincy Willett’s Winner of the National Book Award is unnervingly funny and disarmingly tender whether she is writing about sex, literary delusion, or Yankee pretension.
Critics Review
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“An elegy wrapped inside a satire, a sorrowful meditation on the mysteries of sibling love and rivalry concealed within a bitterly funny chronicle of literary buffoonery.”
Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author
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“Willett does a remarkable job of treating dark subject matter with shimmering playfulness, without diminishing its monstrosity…Poignant and funny, mean and tender, Willett’s novel is exuberantly original.”
Publishers Weekly
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“[An] utterly cunning and clever novel in which Willett blends wry understatement with wise understanding to portray a complex relationship between twin sisters and mordantly explore the misfortune that can befall the man who comes between them.”
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Details
- Author
- Jincy Willett
- Narrator
- Susan Boyce
- Duration
- 10 hours 20 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 August 2022
- ISBN
- 9798212012706
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Humorous fiction, Family life fiction, Satirical fiction and parodies
Synopsis
Set in Rhode Island, Winner of the National Book Award tells the story of twins who could not be more different.Abigail Mather is a woman of passionate sensual and sexual appetites, while her sister, the book loving local librarian Dorcas, lives a quiet life of the mind. But when the sisters are sought out by the predatory and famous poet, Guy DeVilbiss, who introduces them to Hollywood hack writer and possible psychopath Conrad Lowe, they rapidly become pawns in a game that leads to betrayal, shame and ultimately, murder.Darkly comic and satirical, Jincy Willett’s Winner of the National Book Award is unnervingly funny and disarmingly tender whether she is writing about sex, literary delusion, or Yankee pretension.
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