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.
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.
Lolly Willowes (New York Review of Books Classics Series)
230Lolly Willowes (New York Review of Books Classics Series)
230Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780940322165 |
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Publisher: | New York Review Books |
Publication date: | 09/30/1999 |
Series: | NYRB Classics Series , #5 |
Pages: | 230 |
Sales rank: | 133,581 |
Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 7.97(h) x 0.63(d) |