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020			_a9781529157864
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050			_aPS3607.R6344 _bM38 2022
100			_aGroff, Lauren _924107 _eauthor
245			_aMatrix _c/ Lauren Groff.
260			_aDublin : _bPenguin Books, _c2022.
300			_a257 pages : _c20 cm.
520			_aCast 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.
600		0	_aMarie, de France _yactive 12th century _924108
650		0	_aFaith _vFiction _924109
650		0	_aNuns _vFiction _924110
655		0	_aHistorical fiction _922722
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