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    Marigold and Rose: A Fiction
    Marigold and Rose: A Fiction
    Marigold and Rose: A Fiction
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    Marigold and Rose: A Fiction

    By Louise Gluck

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    Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from the Nobel laureate Louise Glück.

    “Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V.” So begins Marigold and Rose, Louise Glück’s astonishing chronicle of the first year in the life of twin girls. Imagine a fairy tale that is also a multigenerational saga; a piece for two hands that is also a symphony; a poem that is also, in the spirit of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, an incandescent act of autobiography.

    Here are the elements you’d expect to find in a story of infant twins: Father and Mother, Grandmother and Other Grandmother, bath time and naptime—but more than that, Marigold and Rose is an investigation of the great mystery of language and of time itself, of what is and what has been and what will be. “Outside the playpen there were day and night. What did they add up to? Time was what they added up to. Rain arrived, then snow.” The twins learn to climb stairs, they regard each other like criminals through the bars of their cribs, they begin to speak. “It was evening. Rose was smiling placidly in the bathtub playing with the squirting elephant, which, according to Mother, represented patience, strength, loyalty and wisdom. How does she do it, Marigold thought, knowing what we know.”

    Simultaneously sad and funny, and shot through with a sense of stoic wonder, this small miracle of a book, following thirteen books of poetry and two collections of essays, is unlike anything Glück has written, while at the same time it is inevitable, transcendent.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 11, 2022
    ISBN9780374607593
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    Louise Gluck

    Louise Glück (1943-2023) was the author of two collections of essays and thirteen books of poems. Her many awards included the Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, the National Book Award for Faithful and Virtuous Night, the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Triumph of Achilles, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poems 1962–2012, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She taught at Yale University and Stanford University and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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      so funny - could give this to almost any of my friends and they would be happy
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      A lovely look at the first year of life of twin girls whose differences complement each other, and the ideas that capture their attention. The author's talent as a Nobel Prize-winning poet shines through with a light, sweet touch.

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    MARIGOLD AND ROSE

    Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V. Rose didn’t care for books. She particularly disliked books of the kind Marigold was presently reading, in which animals substituted for people. Rose was a social being. Rose liked activities in which people figured. Like baths. She liked being soaped all over by Mother or Father and then being rinsed until she was spotless. Usually something would be exclaimed on. Her silky skin. Her beautiful eyes with their dark lashes. But to be left out as she was now, to be unnecessary—this she did not like. I am not just spotless, she thought to herself. I am also stripeless.

    Marigold was still reading. Of course she wasn’t reading; neither of the twins could read; they were babies. But we have inner lives, Rose thought.

    Marigold was writing a book. That she couldn’t read was an impediment. Nevertheless, the book was forming in her head. The words would come later. The book had people in it but it also had animals. All books, Marigold felt, should have animals; people were not enough.

    Marigold knew this was utterly alien to her sister, just as Rose’s eager sociability and curiosity, her calm self-confidence, were alien to Marigold herself. This must be why they were twins. Together they included everything.

    I will put that in my book, Marigold thought, when things did not go well for her.

    She felt she would never be perfect as Rose

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