Dimensions
161 x 243 x 30mm
A lush, nineteenth-century-style novel about a utopian community on the brink of collapse, inspired by George Eliot's Middlemarch and Dickens's Bleak Housea In the forests of western New York state in the late 1960's, several dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding what becomes a famous commune on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House. Arcadia follows this lyrical, rollicking, tragic, and exquisite utopian dream from its hopeful start through its heyday and after. Arcadia and the Arcadians rise and fall and evolve across three generations. What unfolds is an astonishingly beautiful and gripping novel. With Arcadia, her first novel since her lauded debut, The Monsters of Templeton, Lauren Groff establishes herself not only as one of the most gifted young fiction writers at work today but also as one of our most accomplished literary artists.
