House Under Snow - Hardcover

Bialosky, Jill

3.08

321 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151006857 ISBN 13: 9780151006854

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002

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Engaged to be married, Anna Crane reflects back on her childhood in small-town Ohio during the 1960s and 1970s with two sisters and charismatic, self-destructive mother as she recalls her own first love affair with a troubled boy, her mother's complex love life, and her betrayal by two important figures in her life. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Lucid, finely crafted. Captures the purity and desperation of adolescent love." -Los Angeles Times
"An elegiac novel." -The Washington Post
"Artful. A quiet stepsister to Rick Moody's The Ice Storm."-The New York Times Book Review
"Stunning." --Glamour
PRAISE FOR "HOUSE UNDER SNOW"
"This artful first novel . . . is a quiet stepsister to Rick Moody's "The Ice Storm" . . . perceptive and moving."--"The New York Times Book Review"
"Lucid, finely crafted . . . detailing in sharp, textured prose the rise and fall of a doomed first love . . . Bialosky, with her delicate touch and clear eye for human frailty, is an author of talent, and "House Under Snow" an elegant debut."--"Los Angeles Times"
"An artfully poignant rendering of first love, a mother's emotional fragility and the enduring bonds among sisters."--"Newsday"
PRAISE FOR "HOUSE UNDER SNOW"

"This artful first novel . . . is a quiet stepsister to Rick Moody's "The Ice Storm" . . . perceptive and moving."--"The New York Times Book Review"

"Lucid, finely crafted . . . detailing in sharp, textured prose the rise and fall of a doomed first love . . . Bialosky, with her delicate touch and clear eye for human frailty, is an author of talent, and "House Under Snow" an elegant debut."--"Los Angeles Times"

"An artfully poignant rendering of first love, a mother's emotional fragility and the enduring bonds among sisters."--"Newsday"
PRAISE FOR"HOUSE UNDER SNOW"

"This artful first novel . . . is a quiet stepsister to Rick Moody's"The Ice Storm". . . perceptive and moving."--"The New York Times Book Review"

"Lucid, finely crafted . . . detailing in sharp, textured prose the rise and fall of a doomed first love . . . Bialosky, with her delicate touch and clear eye for human frailty, is an author of talent, and"House Under Snow"an elegant debut."--"Los Angeles Times"

"An artfully poignant rendering of first love, a mother's emotional fragility and the enduring bonds among sisters."--"Newsday"
PRAISE FOR HOUSE UNDER SNOW
"This artful first novel . . . is a quiet stepsister to Rick Moody's The Ice Storm . . . perceptive and moving."--The New York Times Book Review
"Lucid, finely crafted . . . detailing in sharp, textured prose the rise and fall of a doomed first love . . . Bialosky, with her delicate touch and clear eye for human frailty, is an author of talent, and House Under Snow an elegant debut."--Los Angeles Times
"An artfully poignant rendering of first love, a mother's emotional fragility and the enduring bonds among sisters."--Newsday
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR HOUSE UNDER SNOW

"Present in every exquisite line are the author's myriad gifts as poet and
storyteller."--Helen Schulman, author of The Revisionist
"A passionate, sensually written tale of a daughter's struggle to wrest free of her mother's fitful and destructive influence."--Jennifer Egan, author of Look at Me

From the Back Cover:

"A lucid, finely crafted first novel . . .Captures the purity and desperation of adolescent love in thick, sensual descriptions tinged by the wisdom of distance." -Los Angeles Times
In this poignant and sensual story, Anna Crane, a woman soon to be married, reflects on her Ohio childhood during the 1960s and '70s. She recalls life with her two sisters and their charismatic mother, who is consumed by memories of her late husband. When Anna falls in love with the wild Austin Cooper, she finds herself caught between family loyalty and her own young passions. As she struggles to assert her independence and adulthood, she and her sisters begin to understand how their mother's failure to let go of the past threatens the future of the family.
Illuminating the price of loss and survival, House Under Snow is a brilliantly told tale of first love, of a family's slow disintegration, and of the enduring power of the past.
"Artful . . . A quiet stepsister to Rick Moody's The Ice Storm."-The New York Times Book Review
"An elegiac novel of a father's sudden death and its lingering effect on the family he leaves behind." -The Washington Post
Jill Bialosky received an M.A. in writing from Johns Hopkins University, as well as an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of two books of poetry, The End of Desire and Subterranean, and her poems and essays appear regularly in the Paris Review, the New Yorker, American Poetry Review and The Nation. She lives in New York with her husband and son.

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