The Hanky of Pippin's Daughter
Author(s): Rosmarie Waldrop; Ben Lerner (Introduction by)
"Wonderfully, relentlessly absorbing, Hanky's several overlapping tales leave one marvelling at the beauty, economy, and humor with which Waldrop interweaves the complex tensions of Hitler's Germany in a family drama of repeated infidelity. Delightfully rich and bawdy and as strong-willed as its characters." - Lydia Davis"Josef and Frederika Seifert made a bad marriage - he so metaphysical, she, furious frustrated singer, furious frustrated femme fatale, unfaithful within two months of the wedding day. The setting is small town Germany between the wars; the Seiferts are just those 'ordinary people' who helped Hitler rise, bequeathing their daughter, who tells their story, a legacy of grief and guilt. Rosmarie Waldrop's haunting novel, superbly intelligent, evocative and strange, reverberates in the memory for a long time, a song for the dead, a judgment." - Angela Carter
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Dorothy, a publishing project
- : 0.01
- : October 2019
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- : books
Special Fields
- : Rosmarie Waldrop; Ben Lerner (Introduction by)
- : Paperback
- : 1910
- : English
- : 813/.54
- : 240