Maggie Shipstead. (2012). Seating Arrangements. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Maggie Shipstead. 2012. Seating Arrangements. Books on Tape.

Maggie Shipstead, Seating Arrangements. Books on Tape, 2012.

Maggie Shipstead. Seating Arrangements. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2012.

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   • bioText: MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD was born in 1983 and grew up in Orange County, CA. Her short fiction has appeared in Tin House, VQR, Glimmer Train, The Best American Short Stories, and other publications. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the recipient of a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.
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Maggie Shipstead’s irresistible social satire, set on an exclusive New England island over a wedding weekend in June, provides a deliciously biting glimpse into the lives of the well-bred and ill-behaved.
Winn Van Meter is heading for his family’s retreat on the pristine New England island of Waskeke. Normally a haven of calm, for the next three days this sanctuary will be overrun by tipsy revelers as Winn prepares for the marriage of his daughter Daphne to the affable young scion Greyson Duff.  Winn’s wife, Biddy, has planned the wedding with military precision, but arrangements are sideswept by a storm of salacious misbehavior and intractable lust: Daphne’s sister, Livia, who has recently had her heart broken by Teddy Fenn, the son of her father’s oldest rival, is an eager target for the seductive wiles of Greyson’s best man; Winn, instead of reveling in his patriarchal duties, is tormented by his long-standing crush on Daphne’s beguiling bridesmaid Agatha; and the bride and groom find themselves presiding over a spectacle of misplaced desire, marital infidelity, and monumental loss of faith in the rituals of American life.
Hilarious, keenly intelligent, and commandingly well written, Shipstead’s deceptively frothy first novel is a piercing rumination on desire, on love and its obligations, and on the dangers of leading an inauthentic life, heralding the debut of an exciting new literary voice.

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   • source: Richard Russo, author of That Old Cape Magic
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     "Maggie Shipstead is an outrageously gifted writer, and her assured first novel, Seating Arrangements, is by turns hilarious and deeply moving."

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   • source: Courtney Sullivan, author of Maine
   • content: "Seating Arrangements is bursting with perfectly observed characters and unforgettable scenes. This gorgeous, wise, funny, sprawling novel about family, fidelity, and social class, is the best book I've read in ages."
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   • source: Justin Torres, author of We the Animals
   • content: "A pitch-perfect debut from a master storyteller, Seating Arrangements is a rich and deep work: a smart, consuming novel that manages also to be delightfully funny. A romp of a book, with whales and weddings and wealth, it is, at its heart, a warning against the empty seductions of status and exclusivity."
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   • source: New York Times Book Review
   • content: "Smart and frothy...Beneath the surface of this summery romp lie animosities, well-paced sexual suspense and a clash between appearances and authenticity...waltzlike."
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   • source: Washington Post
   • content: "A sophisticated summer romp...Shipstead's weave of wit and observation continually delights. I wouldn't be surprised if someday she trades her Lilly Pulitzer for something from Joseph Pulitzer."
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   • source: O Magazine
   • content: "Whipsmart and engaging...the best kind of smart beach read."
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   • source: National Geographic Traveler
   • content: "Dead-on delightful...a champagne-fueled, saltwater-scented comedy of upper-crust New England manners and mores."
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   • source: Daily Mail (UK)
     
   • content: "Irresistible [and] joyously good."
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   • source: San Francisco Chronicle
   • content: "Elegant, delightful...Shipstead's sentences simmer and crackle on the page."
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    • source: The Boston Globe
    • content: "This is one of those rare debut novels that neither forsakes plot for language nor language for plot. It is gratifying on every scale...The novel is teeming with the sort of casual philosophizing that encourages passage-underlining and earnest recommendation."
11. • premium: False
    • source: The Maine Edge
    • content: "Funny and dark and poignant--sometimes all at once. Shisptead is a gifted storyteller whose richly realized characters and sweetly flowing prose coalesce into a tale that is by parts sweet and sharp, humorous and heartbreaking. It's an auspicious debut by an undeniably talented writer."
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    • source: Booklist
    • content: "Zestful yet acerbic...for all its madcap quirkiness, Shipstead's adroit escapade artfully delivers a poignant reflection on the enduring if frustrating nature of love, hope, and family."
13. • premium: False
    • source: Publishers Weekly
    • content: "Vibrant prose and moments of keen insight."
14. • premium: False
    • source: Entertainment Weekly, A- review
      
    • content: "Delightful...Shipstead writes with clarity and confidence, nimbly dropping into multiple characters' heads, giving each a distinct voice and point of view but always with great wit and heart. Seating Arrangements brims with sharp observations about love, lust, family, and the real meaning of marital bliss."
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    • source: People, Style Watch
    • content: "Impressive...Shipstead's characters...feel totally true to life."
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    • content: Shipstead's vibrant prose sparks the raw energy driving this satire set on a New England island on the eve of a reunion and wedding. The revelers converge to witness the marriage of Daphne, the daughter of Winn, the protagonist. All manner of tangential relationships, lusty attractions, malignant resentments, salacious misdeeds, and sad ruminations shadow the happy occasion. Arthur Morey champions Winn's introspective nature and bewildered missteps, but he gives women's voices, even quite youthful ingenues, an incongruous trembling that sounds aged. Still, Morey's perceptive performance accords with each character's specific angst, building memorable encounters, hilarious misunderstandings, and a witty romp through class barriers that separate the social elite and those striving to join them. A.W. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
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      April 30, 2012
      Vibrant prose and moments of keen insight lighten an otherwise lackluster debut in this comedy of manners set during the days preceding a wedding. Daphne Van Meter is getting married at her family’s New England summerhouse, her advanced pregnancy a blight on the festivities for the older WASP set. Her father, Winn, feeling increasingly irrelevant at work and in the eyes of his family, toys with the idea of adultery, though his real passion is gaining admittance to Waskeke island’s exclusive golf club. Daphne’s younger sister Livia, unable to recover from her recent abortion and breakup, makes halfhearted attempts to find a rebound interest as the weekend progresses. Also on the scene is Biddy, Winn’s solid if unspectacular wife (she falls asleep during sex and only wants Winn to be discreet if he cheats). The characters are either bland or unsympathetic, and with little plot, the book lacks energy. Readers looking for a thoughtful beach read may find moments of distraction in Shipstead’s linguistic dexterity, but the glacial pace and dull characters will likely put them to sleep. Agent: Rebecca Gradinger, Fletcher & Company.

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Winn Van Meter is heading for his family’s retreat on the pristine New England island of Waskeke. Normally a haven of calm, for the next three days this sanctuary will be overrun by tipsy revelers as Winn prepares for the marriage of his daughter Daphne to the affable young scion Greyson Duff.  Winn’s wife, Biddy, has planned the wedding with military precision, but arrangements are sideswept by a storm of salacious misbehavior and intractable lust: Daphne’s sister, Livia, who has recently had her heart broken by Teddy Fenn, the son of her father’s oldest rival, is an eager target for the seductive wiles of Greyson’s best man; Winn, instead of reveling in his patriarchal duties, is tormented by his long-standing crush on Daphne’s...

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