{"product_id":"seven-steeples-isbn-9780358629238","title":"Seven Steeples","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e's 10 Best Books of the Year • Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize • Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize • An \u003cem\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“One of the most beautiful novels I have ever read.” —\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe acclaimed novel about a couple who, pushing against traditional expectations, move with their dogs to the Irish countryside where they embed themselves in nature and make attempts to disappear from society.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the winter following the summer they met. A couple, Bell and Sigh, move into a remote house in the Irish countryside with their dogs. Both solitary with misanthropic tendencies, they leave the conventional lives stretched out before them to build another—one embedded in ritual, and away from the friends and family from whom they’ve drifted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey arrive at their new home on a clear January day and look up to appraise the view. A mountain gently and unspectacularly ascends from the Atlantic, “as if it had accumulated stature over centuries. As if, over centuries, it had steadily flattened itself upwards.” They make a promise to climb the mountain, but—over the course of the next seven years—it remains unclimbed. We move through the seasons with Bell and Sigh as they come to understand more about the small world around them, and as their interest in the wider world recedes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeven Steeples \u003c\/em\u003eis a beautiful and profound meditation on the nature of love and the resilience of nature. Through Bell and Sigh, and the life they create for themselves, Sara Baume explores what it means to escape the traditional paths laid out before us—and what it means to evolve in devotion to another person, and to the landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Haunting and dreamlike and wonderful to read…[\u003cem\u003eSeven Steeples\u003c\/em\u003e] powerfully recalls the middle act of Virginia Woolf’s \u003cem\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/em\u003e, that heart-stoppingly moving depiction of time passing through an empty house, of loss accumulating. Baume offers up an astonishing prose poem that keeps close religiously and lovingly to the physical throughout.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With calm scrutiny and a vividly beautiful poetic touch…[Sara Baume] succeeds wonderfully.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSeven Steeples\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most beautiful novels I have ever read….Baume’s descriptions of landscape are lovelier than I can express; you simply have to read them yourself.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Exquisitely detailed...one of the brilliant particularities of \u003cem\u003eSeven Steeples\u003c\/em\u003e is its intelligent and satisfying portrayal of time.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It takes both daring and humility to write a book as unique as \u003cem\u003eSeven Steeples\u003c\/em\u003e. In unfailingly precise and lyrical prose, and with a religious attention to even the humblest things of this world, Sara Baume pays homage to nature, to hearth and home, and to the miracle of a love engendered by the union of two solitaries.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSigrid Nunez, author of the National Book Award winner The Friend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Seven Steeples\u003c\/em\u003e is a portrait of a life, a house, a landscape, and of time itself. The accumulation of years feels palpable, as if we are watching the sifting grains of a sand clock, within this tender, hypnotic, and wholly original novel.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAysegül Savas, author of Walking on the Ceiling and White on White\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A triumph….I was utterly charmed by the gentle rhythms and precision of this intricately wrought existential inventory.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOlivia Sudjic, author of Sympathy and Exposure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In its unique evocation of human and natural life, \u003cem\u003eSeven Steeples\u003c\/em\u003e somehow captures the strangeness of being alive in this world at this time. Among those rare books that makes you feel that you’re seeing everything through new eyes.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDoireann Ní Ghríofa, author of A Ghost in the Throat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Subtle and luminous, playful and profound, \u003cem\u003eSeven Steeples\u003c\/em\u003e brings to life the symphonic voices and rhythms of nature. An exquisite tribute to the life in all things, and a testament to the worlds we build together.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoisin Kiberd, author of The Disconnect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Baume] takes the everyday and makes it sing. She takes our normal lives and makes them glisten…\u003cem\u003eSeven Steeples \u003c\/em\u003eis about what it means to tread gently; with intention; on equal footing with every creature we share our days with. The writing is unsettling good; the attention to detail is like no other.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKerri ní Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lush imagery and poetic punctuation choices are ever-present in \u003cem\u003eSeven Steeples\u003c\/em\u003e, appealing to fans of Paulette Jiles and Geraldine Brooks...Baume sets readers down in a near-untamed wilderness and shrinks the world down to a garden, a cabin, and its profoundly resilient occupants.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889948750053,"sku":"NP9780358629238","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780358629238.jpg?v=1730232245","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/seven-steeples-isbn-9780358629238","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}