The Furies - Hardcover

Hobhouse, Janet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747512701 ISBN 13: 9780747512707

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1992

Synopsis

The last novel by Janet Hobhouse, author of Everybody Who Was Anybody: a Biography of Gertrude Stein, Nellie Without Hugo, Dancing in the Dark and November, who died of cancer in 1991. Set on both sides of the Atlantic, it is a contemporary story of a woman, her mother and her loves.

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Review:

"A fiercely intelligent and satisfying novel, but also an incredibly sad one, because to read "The Furies is, I suspect, to get to know Janet Hobhouse, really know her, and then to lose her." "This is a grim, tough, powerful, and beautiful book, the memoir of a genuine heroine, whose struggle against the calamities that beset her -- beginning with the wounds inflicted by a remote coldhearted father and a pathetically helpless mother and ending with the anguish of a wrecked marriage, the mother's suicide, and the author's own fatal illness -- was waged with enormous intelligence and fortitude, and even with flair. At the heart of the book -- and depicted with pitiless candor -- is the tortuous bond of love between mother and daughter. That at the end of her brief life, Janet Hobhouse could transform her suffering into a confession so precise and evocative and singularly unselfpitying, so strangely full of verve, strikes me as a considerable moral as well as literary achivement." -- Philip Roth "A stunning heartbreaker of a book, shot through with pellucid sadness...[an] extraordinary last book in which [Hobouse's] pain is as insistent--and lustrous--as her craft." --S

About the Author:

Janet Hobhouse (1948–1991) was raised in New York City and educated at Oxford. She lived in London and New York and was the author of two works of non-fiction, The Bride Stripped Bare, a study of the female nude in art, and Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein, and four novels, Nellie Without Hugo, Dancing in the Dark, November, and The Furies, which was published after her death from ovarian cancer at the age of forty-two.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0747512701
• ISBN 13: 9780747512707
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240