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Delphi

Delphi

Pollard, Clare

Paperback

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 1982197900
ISBN13: 9781982197902
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Published: May 9 2023
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.38
Language: English
A Guardian Best Book of 2022 * Clever and surprising. --BuzzFeed * Brilliantly funny. --San Francisco Chronicle * Ingenious.--The Millions * Powerful. --Harper's Bazaar

A captivating debut novel about a classics professor immersed in research for a new book on a prophecy in the ancient world who confronts chilling questions about her own life just as the pandemic descends--for readers of Jenny Offill, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Sally Rooney.

Covid-19 has arrived in London, and the entire world quickly succumbs to the surreal, chaotic mundanity of screens, isolation, and the disasters big and small that have plagued recent history. As our unnamed narrator--a classics professor immersed in her studies of ancient prophecies--navigates the tightening grip of lockdown, a marriage in crisis, and a ten-year-old son who seems increasingly unreachable, she becomes obsessed with predicting the future. Shifting her focus from chiromancy (prophecy by palm reading) to zoomancy (prophecy by animal behavior) to oenomancy (prophecy by wine), she fails to notice the future creeping into the heart of her very own home, and when she finally does, the threat has already breached the gates.

Brainy and ominous, imaginative and funny, Delphi is a snapshot and a time capsule--it vividly captures our current moment and places our reality in the context of myth. Clare Pollard has delivered one of our first great pandemic novels, a mesmerizing and richly layered story about how we keep on living in a world that is ever-more uncertain and absurd.

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