{"product_id":"little-saint-paperback","title":"Little Saint - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHannah Green\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOstensibly the story of one day, the 24 hours described in \"Little Saint\" have 20 centuries woven through them. In this exquisite book, Green provides a wondrous and lyrical portrait of a small French village, and of Saint Foy, who was martyred as a 12-year-old girl in the year 303.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early 1970s, Hannah Green and her husband came upon a small village called Conques, curled like a conch shell in the mountains of south-central France. Entranced, she returned to this numinous place again and again, drawn to the story of the little saint whose spirit fills the lives of the people there. Housed in the village's yellow stone basilica sits the gold reliquary of Sainte Foy, who was beheaded in the fourth century for refusing to deny her faith before a Roman consul. Little Saint, a book written in ecstasy, is at once a moving and passionate tribute to Sainte Foy, a lyrical evocation of daily life in Conques, and a vivid chronicle of the author's intensely felt spiritual journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHannah Green\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Ohio, studied writing with Vladimir Nabokov and Wallace Stegner, wrote for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and created one memorable novel that Richard Ellmann described as possessing \"the ecstasy that is fiction, is art.\" The reviewers' comments about that novel, \u003cb\u003eThe Dead of the House\u003c\/b\u003e, have particular pertinence to the book at hand. Of \u003cb\u003eLittle Saint\u003c\/b\u003e it may also be said, as \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e said of Hannah Green's novel, \"[She] writes under the eye of eter-nity. . . . Time flows in and around the events in her book like some tune that ties all events together.\" As Stegner said, \"This is evocation at the level of magic.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the novel was reissued recently by Books \u0026amp; Company\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eTurtle Point Press, the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e observed: \"Her classic work [has] been received with almost as much critical enthusiasm as its original publication a generation ago.\" Again, this echoed the judgment in \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e of her writing as \"a kind of dream, a protracted prose poem of singular delicacy, filled with generosity, love, and wisdom.\"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 8.6 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 22, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42702843510847,"sku":"9780375757471","price":26.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d1deb659bccd4f421f16db498b4df55c.webp?v=1765026649","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/little-saint-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}