{"product_id":"the-hundred-waters-hardcover","title":"The Hundred Waters - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLauren Acampora\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCelebrated by the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e as \"a brilliant anthropologist of the suburbs,\" the deliciously weird and darkly offbeat Lauren Acampora returns to the secret lives of the polished Connecticut haven that got us all hooked on\u003ci\u003e NPR\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year \u003ci\u003eThe Wonder Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, and jolts us with the sparks that fly when those lives collide\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Acampora's prose has a seductive, pearlescent allure.\"--TIME Magazine \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFormerly a model and photographer trying to make it in New York, Louisa Rader is back in her affluent hometown of Nearwater, Connecticut, where she's married to a successful older architect, raising a preteen daughter, and trying to vitalize the provincial local art center. As the years pass, she's grown restless in her safe and comfortable routine, haunted by the flash of the life she used to live. When intense and intriguing young artist-environmentalist Gabriel arrives in town with his aristocratic family, his impact on the Raders has hothouse effects. As Gabriel pushes to realize his artistic vision for the world, he pulls both Louisa and her daughter Sylvie under his spell, with consequences that disrupt the Raders' world forever.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA strange, sexy, and sinister novel of art and obsession, in \u003ci\u003eThe Hundred Waters \u003c\/i\u003eAcampora gives us an incisive, page-turning story of ambition, despair, desire, and the pursuit of fulfillment and freedom at all costs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauren Acampora is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wonder Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and a finalist for the New England Book Award; \u003cem\u003eThe Paper Wasp\u003c\/em\u003e, longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize; and \u003cem\u003eThe Hundred Waters\u003c\/em\u003e, named a Best Book of 2022 by \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e. She is a 2021 NYSCA\/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction from The New York Foundation for the Arts. Her writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eParis Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGuernica\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLitHub\u003c\/em\u003e, among other places. She lives in Westchester County, New York with her husband, artist Thomas Doyle, and their daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.4 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 23, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767248453920,"sku":"9780802159748","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b344593453bc134918295a36406a4e62.webp?v=1780307520","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-hundred-waters-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}