Asymmetry

✍ Scribed by Halliday, Lisa

• Book ID: 110227575
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 482 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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"Asymmetry is extraordinary. . . Halliday has written, somehow all at once, a transgressive roman a clef, a novel of ideas and a politically engaged work of metafiction." —Alice Gregory, The New York Times Book Review

"A brilliant and complex examination of power dynamics in love and war." —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal

"A scorchingly intelligent first novel. . . Asymmetry will make you a better reader, a more active noticer. It hones your senses." —Parul Seghal, The New York Times

A singularly inventive and unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of life and art, from 2017 Whiting Award winner Lisa Halliday.
Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent,...