“[The book] I’ll be pressing into people’s hands forever is “Lolly Willowes,” the 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner. It tells the story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favor of freedom and the most unexpected of alliances. It completely blindsided me: Starting as a straightforward, albeit beautifully written family saga, it tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness.” – Helen Macdonald in The New York Times Book Review‘s “By the Book.”
In Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner tells of an aging spinster’s struggle to break way from her controlling family–a classic story that she treats with cool feminist intelligence, while adding a dimension of the supernatural and strange. Warner is one of the outstanding and indispensable mavericks of twentieth-century literature, a writer to set beside Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, with a subversive genius that anticipates the fantastic flights of such contemporaries as Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 09/30/1999
Series: New York Review Books (Paperback) #05
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780940322165
Language: English
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