Sweet Fury
A Novel
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Fates and Furies meets The Silent Patient when movie star Lila Crayne and her film director fiancé embark on a feminist adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, prompting Lila to excavate her past in preparation for her leading role--but in doing so, she becomes entangled in a deadly game of revenge in which everyone, on screen and off, is playing a part.
Lila Crayne is America's sweetheart: she's generous and kind, gorgeous and magnetic, and she's loved the whole world over. She and her boyfriend, visionary filmmaker Kurt Royall, have settled into a stunning apartment in the West Village, and are embarking on a modern feminist adaptation of Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night.
To prepare for the leading role, Lila begins work with charming and accomplished therapist Jonah Gabriel to dig into the trauma of her past. Soon, Lila's impeccably manicured life begins to unravel on the therapy couch--and Jonah is just the man to pick up the pieces. But everyone has a secret, and no one is quite who they seem; before long, careers, reputations, and lives are in danger of being irrevocably destroyed.
A twisty, thought-provoking novel told through the lens of the film industry, and in conversation with the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sweet Fury takes a hard look at America's deep-rooted misogyny, and offers a fresh take on the aftermath of the #MeToo movement. A meta novel of construction and deconstruction about the narratives we tell ourselves--and what happens when we co-opt others into those stories--Sweet Fury examines the true meaning of justice, and the blurred lines between victim and perpetrator.
About this Author
Sash Bischoff is a writer and theater director. She has written plays that have been developed at theaters throughout the US. As a director, she has worked on Broadway and off. Broadway/National Tours include Dear Evan Hansen, The Visit, On the Town, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Shrek. Sash grew up as an actor and won the National Arts Award (NFAA) for Acting. She currently lives in New York with her husband and their many pets. Sweet Fury is her first novel.
Reviews
"Sweet Fury is a wildly imaginative, very dark romance of a kind that would have shocked F. Scott Fitzgerald, that icon of the Roaring Twenties. Filled with surprises, unpredictable in its denouement, this audacious first novel is a subversive and highly entertaining exploration of the theme of 'romance' itself."
-- JOYCE CAROL OATES
"A breathlessly fun, dark, and twisty tale of feminist revenge."
-- LISA GENOVA, New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice and More or Less Maddy
"A beguiling tale of abuse and ambition . . . Bischoff reveals one surprising secret after another, all the way until the bombshell final twist. It's an inspired first outing."
-- Publishers Weekly
"Sweet Fury is a gorgeous literary thriller, filled with a cast of glamorous and tragic characters that feel like they might just have stepped out of a modern-day F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. I absolutely devoured this smart, sensual, and twisty story of revenge."
-- JILLIAN CANTOR, USA Today bestselling author of Beautiful Little Fools
"Sash Bischoff combines luminous prose with fiendishly clever twists in this magnetic gift of a novel.Tackling obsession, fame, victimhood and villainization, Sweet Fury honors F. Scott Fitzgerald, then thrillingly redefines his classics for our modern age."
-- LAURA HANKIN, author of One-Star Romance and Happy & You Know It
"A whirlwind of a debut, Sweet Fury is arch yet artful--an ecstatic, ekphrastic, high/low re-examination of F. Scott Fitzgerald's darkest romance, set in the roaring 2020s."
-- RACHEL LYON, author of Self-Portrait with Boy and Fruit of the Dead
"With its audacious, shape-shifting plot and dazzling characters, Sweet Fury is an irresistible novel, always one step ahead of the reader. I love what it reveals about contemporary mores, about our love of cinema and the way we still too often judge women as either heroines or victims. A gorgeous debut."
-- MARGOT LIVESEY, author of The Road from Belhaven
"With her powerful, sensuous prose, Sash Bischoff electrifies in her stunning debut novel. The story sweeps us into the intoxicating world of movies and magic, seduction and betrayal, exploring how we construct our own histories, and how fragile our realities really are. Sweet Fury is the book you've been waiting to read, the one that will make you fall in love and keep you guessing right up until the final pages. The novel asks if we can ever truly know each other, and how love can destroy as much as it creates. Like a fist inside a velvet glove, SWEET FURY delivers a tender punch."
-- BLAIR HURLEY, author of Minor Prophets
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