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Title: A House and Its Head by Ivy Compton-Burnett, Francine Prose ISBN: 0-940322-64-1 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 12 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Another gem from the NYRB Press
Comment: I'm beginning to become addicted to these little neglected treasures that the NYRB Press is reissuing. Not only are the editions themselves little marvels (with beautiful and well-chosen color covers and gorgeous paper stock), but whoever is making the choices for which books are reissued has near-infallible taste.
A HOUSE AND ITS HEAD, like so many of Ivy Compton-Burnett's novels, reads something like a modern updating of a Greek tragedy: most of the novel is told through dialogue, there is a kind of chorus that comments on the action of the principal characters, and the plot involves murder, incest, and familial cruelty. Yet for all these borrowings Compton-Burnett paradoxically remains wonderfully sui generis: no one else has ever mastered her capability for evoking such extreme subtlety in manners that the merest cruel nuances can become evoked (if one reads carefully enough). She is also a master plotter: just when you think you've caught up with the characters' schemes, she allows the other characters in the novel to make similar realizations, and then jumps even further ahead. This is a real page-turner as well as a subtle commentary on Edwardian manners and moral monstrousness.
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Title: Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett, Diane Johnson ISBN: 0940322633 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 12 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West, Andrea Barrett ISBN: 1590170342 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Lolly Willowes : Or the Loving Huntsman (New York Review Books Classics) by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Alison Lurie ISBN: 0940322161 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Go-Between (New York Review Books Classics) by L. P. Hartley, Colm Toibin ISBN: 0940322994 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 12 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Way of Life, Like Any Other (New York Review Books Classics) by Darcy O'Brien, Seamus Heaney ISBN: 094032279X Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 09 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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