Lolly Willowes: Or the Loving Huntsman: 05 (New York Review Books (Paperback)) - Softcover

Warner, Sylvia Townsend

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0940322161 ISBN 13: 9780940322165

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc, 1999

Synopsis

"[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.

About this title

Book Description:

Sylvia Townsend Warner's first novel, published in 1926, is magical and subversive, anticipating the ficton of writers like Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.

From the Back Cover:

'As fresh and powerful today as it was when published in 1926' Guardian

'This is the witty, eerie, tender but firm life history of a middle-class Englishwoman who politely declines to make the expected connection with the opposite sex and becomes a witch instead' John Updike

After the death of her adored father, Laura 'Lolly' Willowes settles into her role of the 'indispensible' maiden aunt of the family. Two decades pass; the children are grown, and Lolly unexpectedly moves to a village, alone. Here, happy and unfettered, she revels in a new existence, nagged only by the sense of a secret she has yet to discover.

About this edition

• Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0940322161
• ISBN 13: 9780940322165
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230