{"product_id":"the-hanky-of-pippins-daughter-paperback","title":"The Hanky of Pippin's Daughter (paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Rosmarie Waldrop\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Dorothy (2019)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Josef and Frederika Seifert made a bad marriage—he so metaphysical, she, furious frustrated singer, furious frustrated\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efemme fatale\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e–A\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003engela Carter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Broken into sections with titles like ‘Portrait of Frederika as a Control Tower,’ Waldrop’s examination of a private domestic war inside a world war might be considered in relation to Gertrude Stein’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLifting Belly\u003c\/em\u003e, the celebration of an erotic love life inside the same world war.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e–Forrest Gander\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Honestly, the novel is a joy to read, the kind of reading where you’re almost smiling? I really think there’s nothing like it. In this reissue, Dorothy—in the book’s 5.5 x 7 in. shape, clean white cover with a Rudolf Bonvie series of repeating, slightly changing photographs of hands reaching across a divide, like Lucy’s looping narrative, a layered history of human interaction—brings the pleasure of Waldrop’s physical prose to the book form itself, making a lovely, lovely object.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e–Kelly Krumrie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44082932088931,"sku":"9781948980012","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/products\/9781948980012.jpg?v=1597428399","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/the-hanky-of-pippins-daughter-paperback","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}