Matrix (Groff novel)
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| Author | Lauren Groff |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Adjoa Andoh |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical novel |
| Set in | England in the 12th century |
| Publisher | Riverhead Books |
Publication date | September 7, 2021 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback), e-book, audiobook |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 978-1-59463-449-9 (First edition hardcover) |
| OCLC | 1224045534 |
| 813/.6 | |
| LC Class | PS3607.R6344 M38 2021 |
Matrix is a historical novel by American author Lauren Groff, published by Riverhead Books on September 7, 2021.[1] It is the first installment in a planned "triptych" of novels that includes The Vaster Wilds (2023).[2]
Groff's fourth novel, Matrix is about a "seventeen-year-old Marie de France... sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease."[1] Alex Preston, writing in The Observer, described it as "a strange and poetic piece of historical fiction set in a dreamlike abbey, the fictional biography of a 12th-century mystic."[3] Within the novel, Marie, whom Groff writes as a lesbian,[4] turns around the abbey's fortunes and treats it as a quasi-mystical female separatist "utopia".[5]
