Ebook {Epub PDF} The Pisces by Melissa Broder

7 rows ·  · "By fearless and perverted, full of desolation and of hope, The Pisces is a novel that delves head Brand: Random House Publishing Group. By fearless and perverted, full of desolation and of hope, The Pisces is a novel that delves head on into the many dark, absurd facets of human connection and coping in search of meaning and comes back bearing fantastic flashes of a twisted rom-com surreality only Melissa Broder's gemstone-studded brain could conjure bltadwin.ru: Marvel. 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.

Broder's first novel, The Pisces, did the near-impossible work of turning what should be a punchline—a woman has sex with a merman!—into a carefully observed and painfully emotive masterwork. Broder has a way of writing about shame that recalls a Zamboni, methodically circling and recircling a surface until it looks clean. But So Sad Today was also, as Broder put it, 'pickled by the Internet,' steeped in the ethos of relatability, of broad-denominator personal identification. In The Pisces, Broder takes her obsessions and gives them a perverted mythological structure, and corrals. Buy The Pisces by Melissa Broder from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £

The Pisces. London: Hogarth, Melissa Broder’s The Pisces opens by introducing the novel’s heroine: year-old Lucy, a Phoenix-based Ph.D. student who has been procrastinating on completing her thesis on Sappho for nine years. Author Melissa Broder is known for her expertise and writing on psychological conditions which was the theme of her bestselling memoir “So Sad Today” (). In her debut novel, “The Pisces” Broder takes her writing to a new enchanting level when the protagonist falls in deeply love with a man of the sea. Now, Hogarth will publish Broder’s debut novel, THE PISCES, on May 1, —an uproariously funny, gloriously strange, and fiercely original tale of love, obsession, sex and a merman. THE PISCES masterfully blends vivid realism with giddy fantasy to create a story that exemplifies what it means to be a contemporary woman. Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her longtime boyfriend, Jamie, a handsome geologist unwilling to fully commit to a.