Bibliographical Description
86.11.W028: Hobhouse – November
[musical staff 1 x 9.3 cm] | NOVEMBER | [musical staff 1 x 9.3 cm] | JANET HOBHOUSE | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS • A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE • NEW YORK
A Vintage Original, November 1986, First Edition
104 leaves, pp. [6] 1–2 3-198 [4]
Contents: π1a author photo with book-title, π1b “ALSO BY JANET HOBHOUSE”, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a dedication, π3b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-198 November, χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries List.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Jerry Bauer.
Copyright: ©1986. ISBN: 0-394-74665-1. Price: $6.95. November was first published by Vintage Contemporaries, 1986.
Copies: JDP 1.1
Blurbs
- (front cover) A new novel by the author of Dancing in the Dark, “one of the most acute and serious novels on the theme of modern relationships in the last decade. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Through Janet Hobhouse’s third novel we follow Zachariah Quine, who at the age of forty—deserted by both his wife and his ambitions as a musician—flees New York City and its fragmented, bohemian lives, seeking to “crawl back into the camp of the human tribe.” His destination is London, where he stays with his expatriate brother and his “English” family—and meets Anne, whom his brother describes as “a walking disaster, alcoholic, manic-depressive, accident-prone, kleptomaniac, just what you need right now.” She crystallizes everything he yearns for, caught as he is between regret and desire, with only the illusion of freedom to sustain him. November is about the nature of love and loss, and the difficulties of making new ties when the old ones still hurt. Janet Hobhouse redefines our notions of freedom, change and escape, and examines the wariness with which all but the very young are bound to carry through life, in a narrative of clear and affecting power.
- Janet Hobhouse writes in a beautiful and mannered style, full of glimmering and special lucidity, full of moments of instant and complete awareness. – The Los Angeles Herald Examiner
- Janet Hobhouse is an original; yet whole paragraphs could have been written by Henry James—a Henry James who had taken a deep breath and entered his own sexual jungle….She employs English as if it were a dangerous power-tool. – Victoria Glendinning, The London Sunday Times