Lily King
Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 3.84 | 62625 Users | 6604 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Euphoria |
| ISBN: | 0802122558 (ISBN13: 9780802122551) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.groveatlantic.com/?title=Euphoria |
| Characters: | Nell Stone, Andrew Bankson, Schuyler Fenwick |
| Literary Awards: | Audie Award for Literary Fiction (2015), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2014), Kirkus Prize for Fiction (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2014) |
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Inspired by the true story of a woman who changed the way we understand our world.In 1933 three young, gifted anthropologists are thrown together in the jungle of New Guinea. They are Nell Stone, fascinating, magnetic and famous for her controversial work studying South Pacific tribes, her intelligent and aggressive husband Fen, and Andrew Bankson, who stumbles into the lives of this strange couple and becomes totally enthralled. Within months the trio are producing their best ever work, but soon a firestorm of fierce love and jealousy begins to burn out of control, threatening their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives...
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| Title | : | Euphoria |
| Author | : | Lily King |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | June 3rd 2014 by Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Anthropology. Literary Fiction. Audiobook. Romance |
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Loosely based on the experiences of real-life anthropologists Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, and Gregory Bateson, Euphoria is a captivating work of historical fiction. Set in the 1930s Territory of New Guinea, the setting is exotic and the various cultures in the region are intriguing. I became immediately interested in learning about the tribes living along the Sepik River right along with the fictionalized characters Nell Stone and her husband Fen, and the depressed and isolated Andrew Bankson.To begin with I had the feeling I was really going to enjoy this. There wasnt going to be any wizardry or groundbreaking technique to this novel. Rather it seemed it would be a riveting story told by an accomplished writer with a passion for her subject and a very easy and poised prose style. Quickly theres a sense that the real tribes under scrutiny here are men and women. But I felt King could have been a little more subtle and certainly more probing with this anthropological irony. Then it
I dont know much about cultural anthropology, and only vaguely recognize the name Margaret Mead (apparently her work is considered old-fashioned and quaint in current academic circles), but Lily Kings compact and brilliant novel has now made me curious about both. The book was inspired by the few months in 1933 in which Mead, an American, her second husband Reo Fortune, an Australian, and Gregory Bateson (an Englishman, who would become her third husband) spent together on the Sepik River in New
I wasn't quite sure what I really expected in Euphoria by Lily King. I did know that this novel would be based loosely on life encounters of the anthropologist Margaret Mead.What actually made my eyelashes flutter was the character of Andrew Bankson. Lily King develops him beautifully throughout the book. It is Bankson who touches the heart and the soul. Bankson and his brothers are the tragic products of life energy spent in pleasing others and in the senseless pursuit of outward approval.
It has been a while since I had the urge to literally bring a book to my chest and hold it there for a few moments after finishing it, but with this book I not only had the urge, I embraced it. (And therefore the book, because I am both literal and ridiculous.) This is one of those rare books I feel compelled to order for my closest friends (Maria, consider yourself warned!) rather than just recommend, because it's just that good. The tone, like the prose itself, is gorgeous and evocative, the
As they were leaving the Mumbanyo, someone threw something at them. It bobbed a few yards from the stern of the canoe. A pale brown thing. Another dead baby, Fen said.He had broken her glasses by then, so she didnt know if he was joking.Thats the beginning of this gem! I was a goner before I knew what hit me. Dont worry, the book isnt full of dead babies, but its full of life and gorgeous writing and intriguing characters and I cant end this sentence because I cant stop raving about this book.
Early 1930's finds Banks on living with the Kiona tribe in New Guineas. Depressed due to his solitude and loneliness, he tries to take his own life, an attempt that fails. Nell Stone and her husband Fen, have just left the tribe, a very violent one, that they have been studying. Bankson finds them a tribe on the Sepik river, an hour away from the Kiona by boat.This was an extremely interesting read, the tribal customs, their rituals and beliefs, the way they related to each other are all
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