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Advance Praise:

''I deeply adore this shattering, sexy, funny book.'' Megan Nolan

''Totally compelling and brilliant. I couldn''t put it down.'' Cecilia Knapp

A dazzling, feather-light tour de forcewitty and effervescent and insightful, and so sexy, and so real.' Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or


Maggie Millner's seductive debut is a novel-in-verse about a woman in her late twenties who leaves a long-term relationship with a boyfriend for another woman. The affair thrusts her from an outwardly conventional life into queerness, polyamory, kink, and unalloyed, consuming desire. What ensues is an exploration of obsession, gender, identity-making, sexual experiment, and the art and act of literary transformation. Couplets is a dazzling fusion of form and content, chronicling the strictures, structures and pitfalls of relationships the mirroring, the pleasing, the small jealousies and disappointments. Playful, clever, lovestruc

Couplets

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 2 March 2023
      ISBN-13 9780571376711
      978-0571376711
      ISBN-10 0571376711
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      Poetry

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Advance Praise:

      ''I deeply adore this shattering, sexy, funny book.'' Megan Nolan

      ''Totally compelling and brilliant. I couldn''t put it down.'' Cecilia Knapp

      A dazzling, feather-light tour de forcewitty and effervescent and insightful, and so sexy, and so real.' Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or


      Maggie Millner's seductive debut is a novel-in-verse about a woman in her late twenties who leaves a long-term relationship with a boyfriend for another woman. The affair thrusts her from an outwardly conventional life into queerness, polyamory, kink, and unalloyed, consuming desire. What ensues is an exploration of obsession, gender, identity-making, sexual experiment, and the art and act of literary transformation. Couplets is a dazzling fusion of form and content, chronicling the strictures, structures and pitfalls of relationships the mirroring, the pleasing, the small jealousies and disappointments. Playful, clever, lovestruc

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