{"product_id":"the-past-paperback","title":"The Past - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTessa Hadley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \"supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e) turns her astute eye to a dramatic family reunion, where simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over three long, hot summer weeks.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A novel so evocative of summer and adolescence that to read it is to reexperience the deep languor and longing of those days.\" -- Tayari Jones, \u003cem\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Exquisite. . . . For anyone who cherishes Anne Tyler and Alice Munro, the book offers similar deep pleasures.\" -- Ron Charles, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Windham Campbell Prize \u003cem\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year \u003cem\u003e-\u003c\/em\u003e A \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year \u003cem\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e Top 10 Book of the Year \u003cem\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/em\u003e Best Fiction Book of the Year \u003cem\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Editors' Choice \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree sisters and a brother, complete with children, a new wife, and an ex-boyfriend's son, descend on their grandparents' dilapidated old home in the Somerset countryside for a final summer holiday. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past--their mother took them there to live when she left their father--but now, they may have to sell it. And beneath the idyllic pastoral surface lie tensions. As the family's stories and silences intertwine over the course of three long, hot weeks, small disturbances build into familial crises, and a way of life--bourgeois, literate, ritualized, Anglican--winds down to its inevitable end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An exquisite writer, a writer's writer, with a fine eye for detail and a way of crafting sentences that make you stop and inhale . . . Hadley should be a bestseller rather than literary fiction's best kept secret.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe Times \u003c\/em\u003e(London)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree sisters and a brother, complete with children, a new wife, and an ex-boyfriend's son, descend on their grandparents' dilapidated old home in the Somerset countryside for a final summer holiday, where simmering tensions and secrets rise to the surface over three long, hot weeks.The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past--their mother took them there to live when she left their father--but now, they may have to sell it. And beneath the idyllic pastoral surface lie tensions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSophisticated and sleek, Roland's new wife (his third) arouses his sisters' jealousies and insecurities.\u003cbr\u003eKasim, the twenty-year-old son of Alice's ex-boyfriend, becomes enchanted with Molly, Roland's sixteen-year-old daughter. Fran's young children make an unsettling discovery in an abandoned cottage in the woods that shatters their innocence. Passion erupts where it's least expected, leveling the quiet self-possession of Harriet, the eldest sister. As the family's stories and silences intertwine, small disturbances build into familial crises, and a way of life--bourgeois, literate, ritualized, Anglican--winds down to its inevitable end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver five novels and two collections of stories, Tessa Hadley has earned a reputation as a fiction writer of remarkable gifts. She brings all of her considerable skill to \u003cem\u003eThe Past\u003c\/em\u003e, a work of breathtaking scope and beauty--her most ambitious and accomplished novel yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 21, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42695156826175,"sku":"9780062270429","price":22.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e1fbada8c8cb8e151924d3e2aca2b553.webp?v=1765002837","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-past-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}