{"product_id":"lolly-willowes-or-the-loving-huntsman-9780940322165","title":"Lolly Willowes: Or the Loving Huntsman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[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 \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e's \"By the Book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLolly Willowes\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a devoted member of the Communist Party. Her many books include \u003ci\u003eMr. Fortune's Maggot\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLolly Willows \u003c\/i\u003e(both published by NYRB Classics), \u003ci\u003eThe Corner that Held Them\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003eKingdoms of Elfin\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is \u003ci\u003eTruth and Consequences\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50707516457234,"sku":"9780940322165","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_777684e8-c1ee-401d-a9d5-28be2272e78d.jpg?v=1734497027","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lolly-willowes-or-the-loving-huntsman-9780940322165","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}