A radical thinker, one of the rare modern heretics, said Mary
McCarthy of Ivy Compton-Burnett, in whose austere, savage, and
bitingly funny novels anything can happen and no one will ever
escape. The long, endlessly surprising conversational duels at the
center of Compton-Burnett's works are confrontations between the
unspoken and the unspeakable, and in them the dynamics of power and
desire are dramatized as nowhere else. New York Review Books is
reissuing two of the finest novels of this singular modern
genius--works that look forward to the blacky comic inventions of
Muriel Spark as much as they do back to the drawing rooms of Jane
Austen.
"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, in murder.
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