Seating Arrangements: From the Booker Prize 2021 and Women’s Prize 2021 shortlisted author of GREAT CIRCLE - Softcover

Shipstead, Maggie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007467737 ISBN 13: 9780007467730

Publisher: The Borough Press, 2013

Synopsis

A New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize and 2012 L.A. Times First Novel Prize

The Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the New England island of Waskeke to celebrate the marriage of daughter Daphne to an impeccably appropriate young man. The weekend is full of lobster and champagne, salt air and practiced bonhomie, but long-buried discontent and simmering lust seep through the cracks in the revelry.

Winn Van Meter, father-of-the-bride, has spent his life following the rules of the east coast upper crust, but now, just shy of his sixtieth birthday, he must finally confront his failings, his desires, and his own humanity.

About this title

Review:

‘Joyously good’ Daily Mail

‘A ferociously clever comedy of manners’ Guardian

‘Shipstead’s sophisticated and summery debut more than lives up to the hype’ Independent

‘Distinctive and dazzling ... The world has found a remarkable, humane new voice to explain us to ourselves’ Allison Pearson, Telegraph

‘A wise, sophisticated and funny novel about family, fidelity, class and crisis’ Marie Claire

About the Author:

Maggie Shipstead graduated from Harvard in 2005 and earned an M.F.A at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Currently, she is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Seating Arrangements is her first novel.

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About this edition

• Publisher: The Borough Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0007467737
• ISBN 13: 9780007467730
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432