“Delicately distilled perfection.” – The New York Times “A rare specimen of nearly perfect writing.” – Publisher’s Weekly “This is evocation at the level of magic.” –Wallace Stegner A 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.” The Dead of the House 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. The Dead of the House was the first and only novel to be published by the late Hannah Green. Originally issued in 1972, it won lavish praise from critics and readers alike. Yet the novel, which took the author almost 20 years to write, went out of print for almost another two decades, until it was reissued in 1996. Today its virtues are no less evident. Green's lyricism transforms the fairly mundane fabric of her childhood--spent in Ohio and on the Lake Michigan shore--into exquisite, elaborately-worked prose. “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 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. Used Book in Good Condition