{"product_id":"the-furies-isbn-9781590170854","title":"The Furies","description":"A SELECTION OF THE LOST BOOKS CLUB\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn exhilarating, fiercely honest, ultimately devastating book, \u003ci\u003eThe Furies\u003c\/i\u003e confronts the claims of family and the lure of desire, the difficulties of independence, and the approach of death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJanet Hobhouse's final testament is beautifully written, deeply felt, and above all utterly alive.\"This is a grim, tough, powerful, and beautiful book, the memoir of a genuine heroine, whose struggle against the calamities that beset her — beginning with the wounds inflicted by a remote coldhearted father and a pathetically helpless mother and ending with the anguish of a wrecked marriage, the mother’s suicide, and the author’s own fatal illness — was waged with enormous intelligence and fortitude, and even with flair. At the heart of the book — and depicted with pitiless candor — is the tortuous bond of love between mother and daughter. That at the end of her brief life, Janet Hobhouse could transform her suffering into a confession so precise and evocative and singularly unselfpitying, so strangely full of verve, strikes me as a considerable moral as well as literary achivement.\" — Philip Roth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A stunning heartbreaker of a book, shot through with pellucid sadness…[an] extraordinary last book in which [Hobouse’s] pain is as insistent—and lustrous—as her craft.\" — Daphne Merkin, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] sad, beautiful—and profoundly affecting—meditation on love and death and family.\" — Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A sort of Jamesian journey through the labyrinth of the narrator’s consciousness, a finely tuned, highly intelligent, witty, self—examining and haunted instrument…This is an intense tale, told at fever pitch. Grab your hat and hang on for the ride.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hobhouse traces the rise and fall of a family’s fortunes by focusing on its women, on the wives and mothers who might be consigned to the margins of the official story.” —A.O. Scott, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanet Hobhouse\u003c\/b\u003e (1948–1991) was raised in New York City and educated at Oxford. She lived in London and New York and was the author of two works of non-fiction,\u003ci\u003e The Bride Stripped Bare\u003c\/i\u003e, a study of the female nude in art, and \u003ci\u003eEverybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein\u003c\/i\u003e, and four novels, \u003ci\u003eNellie Without Hugo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDancing in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNovember\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Furies\u003c\/i\u003e, which was published after her death from ovarian cancer at the age of forty-two.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaphne Merkin\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eEnchantment\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel and \u003ci\u003eDreaming of Hitler\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of essays. Her cultural criticism has appeared in a range of publications, including \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e, and has been widely anthologized. She has been a staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and is currently a contributing writer at \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York City, where she teaches writing, and is at work on a memoir, \u003ci\u003eMelancholy Baby\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304046842085,"sku":"NP9781590170854","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590170854.jpg?v=1767739444","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-furies-isbn-9781590170854","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}