Sweet Fury

Nothing is what it appears in this brooding story of revenge wrapped up in a homage to Fitzgerald * Daily Mail *The stage is set for an intoxicating game of revenge. With themes of misogyny and toxicity, this is a beguiling slow burn * Heat *A breathlessly fun, dark, and twisty tale of feminist revenge * Lisa Genova, author of STILL ALICE and MORE OR LESS MADDY *Sweet Fury is cunningly ambitious, and rises to all its own challenges: twisty and immersive, it seduces you into a story so compelling that you aren’t ready for the sucker-punch of its deeper truths. This is a hell of a debut * Rebecca Makkai, author of I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU *Wildly imaginative, very dark … 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, author of BUTCHER *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 *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 BOY IN THE FIELD *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 *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, bestselling author of BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS *

Sash Bischoff is a writer and director. She attended Princeton University, where she trained under Jeffrey Eugenides and Joyce Carol Oates, won Princeton’s Creative Writing Fiction Award, and founded the Princeton Writers Group. She has written numerous plays that have been developed at theatres throughout the US, and has held residencies at Ragdale, PLAYA, the Albee Foundation, Caldera, and Sirenland Writers Workshop. As a director, she has worked on Broadway and Off. She 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.

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