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A Fiction
Picador
October 2023
On Sale: October 10, 2023
64 pages
ISBN: 1250893534
EAN: 9781250893536
Kindle: B09NTJRDL8
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Fiction Family Life | Fantasy
Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction
from the Nobel laureate Louise Gluck.
“Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten
as far as the V.” So begins Marigold and Rose, Louise
Gluck’s astonishing chronicle of the first year in the
life of twin girls. Imagine a fairy tale that is also a
multigenerational saga; a piece for two hands that is also a
symphony; a poem that is also, in the spirit of
Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, an incandescent act of
autobiography.
Here are the elements you’d
expect to find in a story of infant twins: Father and
Mother, Grandmother and Other Grandmother, bath time and
naptime—but more than that, Marigold and Rose is an
investigation of the great mystery of language and of time
itself, of what is and what has been and what will be.
“Outside the playpen there were day and night. What
did they add up to? Time was what they added up to. Rain
arrived, then snow.” The twins learn to climb stairs,
they regard each other like criminals through the bars of
their cribs, they begin to speak. “It was evening.
Rose was smiling placidly in the bathtub playing with the
squirting elephant, which, according to Mother, represented
patience, strength, loyalty and wisdom. How does she do it,
Marigold thought, knowing what we know.”
Simultaneously sad and funny, and shot through with a
sense of stoic wonder, this small miracle of a book,
following thirteen books of poetry and two collections of
essays, is unlike anything Gluck has written, while at the
same time it is inevitable, transcendent.
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