Product Details
- Publisher: Liveright (2019-02-01)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 288 pages
- ISBN-13: 9781631495427
- Item Weight: 232.47 grams
- Dimensions: 8.29 x 5.47 x 0.7 cm
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).
About the Author
Will Boast was born in England and grew up in Ireland and Wisconsin. He won the Iowa Short Fiction Award for his story collection, Power Ballads, and the Rome Prize. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, Best New American Voices, and elsewhere. He divides his time between Chicago and Brooklyn, New York.
