The Corner That Held Them - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire HarmanPublish date:2019-09-10Pages:424
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681373874ISBN-10:1681373874UPC:9781681373874Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Women, ReligiousBook Topic:MedievalSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.95Product ID:SCARMR21Q1
A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story--stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing--of a community. What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist's art.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681373874ISBN-10:1681373874UPC:9781681373874Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Women, ReligiousBook Topic:MedievalSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.95Product ID:SCARMR21Q1
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a member of the Communist Party. Her first novel, Lolly Willowes (available from NYRB Classics), appeared in 1926 and was the first ever Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Over the course of her long career, Warner published six more novels, seven books of poetry, a translation of Proust, fourteen volumes of short stories, and a biography of T.H. White. NYRB also publishes her novels Mr. Fortune, Summer Will Show and The Corner That Held Them. Claire Harman's first book, a biography of Sylvia Townsend Warner, was published in 1989 and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She has since published biographies of Fanny Burney, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Brontë and has edited works by Stevenson and Warner. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006 and became President of The Alliance of LIterary Societies in 2016.
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