Daphne

Author(s): Will Boast

Novel

In mesmerizing prose, best-selling and Rome Prize-winning author Will Boast reimagines the myth of Daphne and Apollo in this much-anticipated debut novel.


Elegantly written and profoundly moving, this spellbinding debut affirms Boast's reputation as a "new young American voice for the ages" (Tom Franklin). Born with a rare (and real) condition in which she suffers degrees of paralysis when faced with intense emotion, Daphne has few close friends and even fewer lovers. Like her mythic namesake, even one touch can freeze her. But when Daphne meets shy, charming Ollie, her well-honed defenses falter, and she's faced with an impossible choice: cling to her pristine, manicured isolation or risk the recklessness of real intimacy. Set against the vivid backdrop of a San Francisco flush with money and pulsing with protest, Daphne is a gripping and tender modern fable that explores both self-determination and the perpetual fight between love and safety.


Praise for Will Boast:


"Remarkable."-- Phillip Lopate


" Boast] can really write."-- Ann Beattie


"So essential, so alive, so immediate."-- Jesmyn Ward


Product Information

A stunning modern myth about a woman literally under siege by her own emotions

Will Boast was born in England and grew up in Ireland and Wisconsin. His short story collection, Power Ballads, won the 2011 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for a California Book Award. He is the author of Epilogue, a memoir (2014). His fiction and essays have appeared in Best New American Voices and the New York Times, among other publications. He has been a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University and a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia in the UK.

General Fields

  • : 9781847088352
  • : Granta Books
  • : Granta Books
  • : 0.277
  • : February 2018
  • : 216mm X 135mm X 17mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : March 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Will Boast
  • : Paperback
  • : Mar-18
  • : English
  • : 813.6
  • : 288