Lolly Willowes (New York Review of Books Classics Series) Poetry_Gift_Guide Instead of rising above mundane

Instead of rising above mundane reality

and Willie is ordered to return

Long Listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award

of how unions collapsed

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Lolly Willowes (New York Review of Books Classics Series) Poetry_Gift_Guide Instead of rising above mundane[The book] Ill be pressing into peoples hands forever is Lolly Willowes, the 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner. It tells the story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favor of freedom and the most unexpected of alliances. It completely blindsided me: Starting as a straightforward, albeit beautifully written family saga, it tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness. Helen Macdonald in The New York Times Book