{"product_id":"9780940322165","title":"Lolly Willowes (New York Review of Books Classics Series)","description":"\u003cb\u003e“[The book] I’ll be pressing into people’s hands forever is \u003ci\u003eLolly Willowes\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370266333245,"sku":"9780940322165","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780940322165_p0.jpg?v=1771586398","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780940322165","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}