The Corner That Held Them

The Corner That Held Them - Paperback

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The Corner That Held Them - Paperback

The Corner That Held Them - Paperback

by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$19.95
$19.95

Book Overview

A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors.

Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story--stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing--of a community. What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist's art.
ISBN9781681373874
Author Sylvia Townsend Warner
PublisherNew York Review of Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2019
LanguageENG- English
Pages424
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) grew up in rural Devonshire before moving to London and writing her debut novel, Lolly Willowes (1926). With her partner, Valentine Ackland, she was active in the Communist Party and served in the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War. Her novels include Mr. Fortune's Maggot, The True Heart, Summer Will Show, After the Death of Don Juan, The Corner That Held Them, and The Flint Anchor.

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