Lolly Willowes : Or the Loving Huntsman (New York Review Books Classics)

ISBN: 0940322161

Author: Warner, Sylvia Townsend

Condition: New

[The book] Ill be pressing into peoples 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.