{"product_id":"the-corner-that-held-them-new-york-review-books-classics","title":"The Corner That Held Them (New York Review Books Classics)","description":"A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors.\n\nSylvia 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1681373874\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1681373874.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Townsend Warner, Sylvia\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41504358236218,"sku":"DBV.1681373874.G","price":12.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1681373874-0.jpg?v=1783103602","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-corner-that-held-them-new-york-review-books-classics","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}