{"product_id":"the-dead-of-the-house-paperback","title":"The Dead of the House - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHannah Green\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Delicately distilled perfection.\" -\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A rare specimen of nearly perfect writing.\" -\u003cem\u003ePublisher's Weekly \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This is evocation at the level of magic.\" -Wallace Stegner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA teenage girl's coming-of-age in the Midwest in the 1940s, centering on her relationship with her father and grandfather. About it, Tillie Olsen wrote, \"Wondrous, a true American classic . . . the timeless magic which is art.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Dead of the House\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel that has, in the years since it was first published, solidified itself as American canon. This is the first and only novel published by Hannah Green, who died in 1996. She spent nearly two decades writing the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHannah Green\u003c\/strong\u003e (1927-1996) is an American author whose one book published in her lifetime, \u003cem\u003eThe Dead of the House\u003c\/em\u003e, was received with great enthusiasm when it was released in 1972 and again upon its rerelease in 1996. While an undergraduate at Wellesley, Green took a class taught by Vladimir Nabokov on Russian literature in translation. She went on to receive an MFA at Stanford, where she met Wallace Stegner and Tillie Olsen; the latter became a lifelong friend. One more book of Hannah Green's was published posthumously, \u003cem\u003eLittle Saint: My Book of the Hours of Saint Foy\u003c\/em\u003e, which Green had worked on for 25 years. She also had articles published in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e. Green was born in Ohio and lived much of her adult life in New York, teaching writing at Columbia University and later at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 225\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 7 x 4.74 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760162603296,"sku":"9781885983077","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4f6da0bdb7608baf5b1d15525d7ac81e.webp?v=1780173245","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-dead-of-the-house-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}