Matrix by Lauren Groff (US First)

Description:

Riverhead Books, New York, 1st Edition,1st  Printing 2021 SIGNED in characteristic artistic style by Lauren Groff on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 260 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm. Stylish olive paper (with embossed "LG" in the center) over tan boards, with gray titling along spine. Jacket is printed in yellow, gray-green and black, featuring a starburst effect. NEW copy. Condition is Fine in Fine - minor ding along top edge of upper board. Packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box.

Why it is important:

The fourth novel by the author of Arcadia and Fates abd Furies, the story of a seventeen-year-old woman who is cast out of courtly life England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. Lauren Groff is a two-time National Book Award Finalist.