![]() There was a Satterwhite Hall there,' and Lancelot winced a little, sighed… 'Oh,' he said to the filmmaker, who was looking at him strangely. ![]() "A very young African-American filmmaker…said 'Satterwhite? I just graduated from Vassar. There, Lotto engages in a twisted collaboration with Leo Sen, a composer who tantalizes him, promising to write the music for Lotto's opera, then disappearing into the void of his studio for days.Īlso at the colony, Lotto encounters his demon legacy. In the end, and from the beginning, Groff has created a novel of extraordinary and genuine complexity. A trust-fund baby estranged from his wealthy, manipulative mother, Lotto takes the story to some interesting places, chief among them a thinly disguised version of the renowned New Hampshire artists' colony MacDowell. ![]() We see him age, while never quite maturing, from the 22-year-old college golden boy who captures the magnificent Mathilde, to struggling actor, to successful, self-aggrandizing playwright. The first half of the novel, "Fates," is told from Lotto's perspective. One of our best American writers, Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies. ![]()
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