{"product_id":"the-palm-house-isbn-9798896230526","title":"The Palm House","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eMy Phantoms\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFirst Love\u003c\/i\u003e, a droll and quietly evocative novel about work, friendship, family, and the path—so often muddled—toward finding one’s place in life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaura Miller and Edmund Putnam have been friends for a long time. Theirs is a happy meeting of minds, with long evenings spent huddled in an ancient pub by the Thames, where they share office gossip, reflect on their teenage passions, and lament the state of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecently, though, Putnam has been harder to reach: He has lost his father, and the magazine to which he has dedicated his life has been hijacked by an insufferable new editor, Simon “call me Shove” Halfpenny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaura has her own problems: Living in London, a beautiful but also indifferent city, with a prickly mother to manage and a tricky past to contemplate, she finds that day-to-day life presents its difficulties. And as Putnam starts to sink into despondency, she must try to bring him back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA novel of enduring friendships and small mercies, \u003ci\u003eThe Palm House\u003c\/i\u003e offers us Gwendoline Riley’s trademark keen observation and wit, and leaves us with a sense of possibility.“Outstandingly brilliant.” —Claire-Louise Bennett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gwendoline Riley is one of my favourite contemporary writers and \u003ci\u003eThe Palm House\u003c\/i\u003e is the book of hers I love the most.” —Sheila Heti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One has the sense, reading Riley, of being involved in an alarming experiment, that of reading the world without the slightest mercy or compromise. . . . We truly see her characters, in their descriptive nakedness, alive and horridly vivid.” —James Wood, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Riley has occasionally been misread through a lens of trendy melancholia. But her work, especially since the breakthrough of \u003ci\u003eFirst Love\u003c\/i\u003e, more closely resembles the sturdy yet delicate realism of the 19th century—Chekhov, Stendhal—in which mundane objects, landscapes and exchanges are imbued with rich layers of social and psychological meaning. . . . Like Mary Gaitskill she is a moralist.” —Lidija Haas, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Riley has a spy’s attention to detail and a great and terrible power to re-create tics, pretensions, and the painfully recognizable human tendency to wallow in delusion.” —Rachel Connolly, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If you need any further proof that Gwendoline Riley is one of our finest prose stylists, look no further than her eighth book, \u003ci\u003eThe Palm House\u003c\/i\u003e. She writes slender, scorching stories that capture the humour and pathos of ordinary English lives in unflinching detail and painfully funny dialogue.”\u003cbr\u003e—Madeleine Feeny\u003cb\u003eGwendoline Riley\u003c\/b\u003e was born in London in 1979. She is the author of seven novels, including \u003ci\u003eFirst Love, My Phantoms,\u003c\/i\u003e and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Palm House. \u003c\/i\u003eIn 2018, \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003enamed her as one of the twenty best British and Irish novelists working today.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233726509285,"sku":"NP9798896230526","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9798896230526.jpg?v=1767740863","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-palm-house-isbn-9798896230526","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}