{"product_id":"the-corner-that-held-them","title":"The Corner That Held Them","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Corner That Held Them\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSylvia Townsend Warner\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781681373874\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNYRB Classics\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2019\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReissue\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e424\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSylvia Townsend Warner's \u003ci\u003eThe Corner That Held Them\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"The Corner That Held Them | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Paperback | 9781681373874 | New | Fiction 1210112","offer_id":49621413986456,"sku":"1210112","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91rpo7yLIbL.jpg?v=1785600162","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-corner-that-held-them","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}