The Dead of the House - by Hannah Green (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

A teenage girl's coming-of-age in the Midwest in the 1940s about which Tillie Olsen wrote, "Wondrous, a true American classic . . . the timeless magic which is art."

Review Quotes

"Sorrows and old family joys seem to pass through its pages like animals at midnight to stalk into some vault of breath and silence and fine attention." -Norman Mailer

"Reading [The Dead of the House] was like falling in love." -New York Times Book Review

"How strange it is to come upon a transcendental novel in the last third of the 20^th century." -Washington Post Book World

About the Author

Hannah Green (1927-1996) is an American author whose one book published in her lifetime, The Dead of the House, 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, Little Saint: My Book of the Hours of Saint Foy, which Green had worked on for 25 years. She also had articles published in The New Yorker. 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.