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Couplets: A Love Story

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Advance Praise: 'I deeply adore this shattering, sexy, funny book.' Megan Nolan 'Totally compelling and brilliant. I couldn't put it down.' Cecilia Knapp 'A dazzling, feather-light tour de force-witty and effervescent and insightful, and so sexy, and so real.' Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or Maggie Millner's seductive debut is a novel-in-verse about a woman in her late twenties who leaves a long-term relationship with a boyfriend for another woman. The affair thrusts her from an outwardly conventional life into queerness, polyamory, kink, and unalloyed, consuming desire. What ensues is an exploration of obsession, gender, identity-making, sexual experiment, and the art and act of literary transformation. Couplets is a dazzling fusion of form and content, chronicling the strictures, structures and pitfalls of relationships - the mirroring, the pleasing, the small jealousies and disappointments. Playful, clever, lovestruck, griefstruck, its narrator dances a tightrope of her own invention with captivating passion and skill. 'Couplets compelled me like a love affair-I didn't want to eat, didn't want to go to bed, didn't want to get off the subway, I just wanted to hear the story it was telling, which was, ultimately, a story about form-what are the forms (of intimacy, vocation, domesticity, verse, pleasure) we want to be held by, and to break free from? I cannot remember the last time I was this gripped by a voice or its questions. Reading it was a thrill, a rearrangement of my psychic molecules.' Leslie Jamison, author of Make It Scream, Make It Burn 'In this riveting debut, Maggie Millner makes the rhyming couplet-that supposedly staid, outmoded vehicle of 18th century moralism-an engine of radical metamorphosis and scorching sex. Couplets plunges us into desire so fierce it overwrites existence, exiling us from the lives we know. This is an endlessly inventive, wise, exhilarating book.' Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You From reviews: 'An astounding debut . . . This is a book that seduces the brain . . . Millner's couplets enact high-wire acts of wit and poignancy.' Adrienne Raphel, New York Times Book Review 'Couplets is chock-full of lines and phrases that can stop a reader in their tracks... I've never read a better encapsulation of what it means to question a previously fixed idea of identity and selfhood. The book as a whole is an experimental-feeling yet unyielding love letter to precisely those kinds of questions.' Emma Specter, Vogue 'While desire is, no doubt, this book's throbbing taxi, Millner's consistent modulation of tone and perspective safeguards the book from the claustrophobia of erotic quest. She offers a philosophy of sexuality as an expansive force: an organization of pleasure that refutes neoliberalism's demand for incessant labor.' Heather Treseler, Los Angeles Review of Books 'Millner's ultimate achievement is to draw open the distance between the book's first line and its ostensibly identical second, between the self that one takes as given and the self, no less true, that one cannot help but make.' Kamran Javadizadeh, New Yorker


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780571376711
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Publisher Imprint: Faber & Faber
  • Height: 206 mm
  • No of Pages: 112
  • Sub Title: A Love Story
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0571376711
  • Publisher Date: 02 Mar 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 220 gr


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