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A House and Its Head is a 1935 novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett, republished in 2001 by New York Review Books with an afterword by Francine Prose and in 2021 by Pushkin Press with an introduction by Hilary Mantel.
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
- 1935
In A House and Its Head, ICB drops any pretense of affection or prospects of happiness to ruthlessly skewer the vicious hypocrisy and twisted morality of Victorian families.
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- 1935
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
- Paperback
A brutally funny demolition of patriarchal authority, A House and Its Head confirms Ivy Compton-Burnett’s status as one of the unique stylists of twentieth-century English fiction, and its greatest chronicler of the violent dysfunction of families.
A brutally funny demolition of patriarchal authority, A House and Its Head confirms Ivy Compton-Burnett's status as one of the unique stylists of twentieth-century English...
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A House and Its Head. Ivy Compton-Burnett. New York Review of Books, Feb 28, 2001 - Fiction - 304 pages. A radical thinker, one of the rare modern heretics, said Mary McCarthy of Ivy...
A House and Its Head is Ivy Compton-Burnett’s subversive look at the politics of family life, and perhaps the most unsparing of her novels. No sooner has Duncan Edgeworth’s wife died than he takes a new, much younger bride whose willful ways provoke a series of transgressions that begins with adultery and ends, much to everyone’s relief ...
