Lolly Willowes: Or the Loving Huntsman, Paperback
Descriere
"" 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.
Despre autor
Sylvia Nora Townsend Warner a fost o romancieră, poetă și muzicologă engleză, cunoscută pentru opere precum romanele Lolly Willowes (1926) și The Corner That Held Them (1948), precum și pentru colecția de povestiri Kingdoms of Elfin (1977). Și-a petrecut cea mai mare parte a vieții adulte în parteneriat cu poeta Valentine Ackland.
