Euphoria

Description

From New England Book Award winner Lily King comes a breathtaking novel about three young anthropologists of the ’30’s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives.
English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the Territory of New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers’ deaths and increasingly frustrated and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of suicide when a chance encounter with colleagues, the controversial Nell Stone and her wry and mercurial Australian husband Fen, pulls him back from the brink. Nell and Fen have just fled the bloodthirsty Mumbanyo and, in spite of Nell’s poor health, are hungry for a new discovery. When Bankson finds them a new tribe nearby, the artistic, female-dominated Tam, he ignites an intellectual and romantic firestorm between the three of them that burns out of anyone’s control.

Set between two World Wars and inspired by events in the life of revolutionary anthropologist Margaret Mead, Euphoria is an enthralling story of passion, possession, exploration, and sacrifice from accomplished author Lily King.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Lily King
Published: 06/03/2014
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 9780802122551
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 1.00″ H x 9.30″ L x 5.70″ W

Award: 2014 New England Book Award Winner – Fiction
Award: 2014 Kirkus Prize Winner – Fiction
Award: 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist – Fiction
Award: 2015 Chautauqua Prize Finalist – Literary Achievement

About the Author

Lily King is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels–Heart the Lover, Writers & Lovers, Euphoria, Father of the Rain, The English Teacher, and The Pleasing Hour–as well as the story collection Five Tuesdays in Winter. Her work has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Kirkus Prize, the New England Book Award, the Maine Book Award, and a Whiting Award; has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Story Prize; and has been longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. She lives in Portland, Maine.