The Pisces: A Novel

Broder, Melissa

ISBN 10: 1524761559 / ISBN 13: 9781524761554

Published by Hogarth (an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group), New York, 2018

About this Item

First edition, hardcover, signed by Broder on the title page, the book has a very light lean to the binding, slight bumps to the spine ends, a touch of shelfwear to the cover edges and corners, and a hint of minor rubbing to the covers. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight Very Good+ copy in a bright, unclipped, Near Fine dust jacket, which has mild bumps to the spine ends and corners. The jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover.

Seller Inventory # 106906

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Pisces: A Novel
• Publisher: Hogarth (an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group), New York
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1524761559
• ISBN 13: 9781524761554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fantasy
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

“Bold, virtuosic, addictive, erotic – there is nothing like The Pisces. I have no idea how Broder does it, but I loved every dark and sublime page of it.” —Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter 
 
Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Annika's home is a gorgeous glass cube on Venice Beach, but Lucy can find little relief from her anxiety — not in the Greek chorus of women in her love addiction therapy group, not in her frequent Tinder excursions, not even in Dominic the foxhound's easy affection.
 
Everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer while sitting alone on the beach rocks one night. But when Lucy learns the truth about his identity, their relationship, and Lucy’s understanding of what love should look like, take a very unexpected turn. A masterful blend of vivid realism and giddy fantasy, pairing hilarious frankness with pulse-racing eroticism, THE PISCES is a story about falling in obsessive love with a merman: a figure of Sirenic fantasy whose very existence pushes Lucy to question everything she thought she knew about love, lust, and meaning in the one life we have.

About the Author

Melissa Broder is the author of the essay collection So Sad Today and four poetry collections, including Last Sext. Her poetry has appeared in POETRY, The Iowa Review, Tin House, Guernica, and she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. She writes the “So Sad Today” column at Vice, the astrology column for Lenny Letter, and the “Beauty and Death” column on Elle’s website. She lives in Los Angeles.