Daphne
A Novel
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4.2 • 9개의 평가
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- US$11.99
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In this “elegant meditation on modern-day emotion” (San Francisco Chronicle), best-selling, prize-winning author Will Boast reimagines the myth of Daphne and Apollo.
Will Boast’s long-anticipated first novel is an “outright marvelous debut [that] breathes fresh vigor into timeless questions of love and risk” (Laura van den Berg). Born with a rare condition in which she suffers degrees of paralysis when faced with intense emotion, Daphne has had few close friends and fewer lovers. Like her mythic namesake, one touch can freeze her. But when Daphne meets shy, charming Ollie, her well-honed defenses falter, and she’s faced with a critical choice: cling to her protective isolation or risk the recklessness of real intimacy. Set against the backdrop of a San Francisco flush with money and pulsing with protest, Daphne is “an amiable exploration of how humans might come to manage their raucous hearts” (NewYorker.com).
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Daphne: A Novel
Boast’s writing captures the reader’s attention and brings the characters to life in a way that makes it hard to leave them at the end of the book. Daphne shares her story, her friends, her support group with unfailing honesty and poignant desire for a normal life. Her family dysfunction and tenuous love affair remind all of us of our own and the human condition. How emotions can break your heart—or kill you—when deeply felt; empathy both lifts and crushes the spirits. Thought-provoking and memorable.