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A first novel by an acclaimed American poet, House Under Snow is a story
of mothers and daughters, of sexual identity, of a family slowly disintegrating after the premature death of its patriarch. Anna Crane, soon to be married, reflects back on her childhood in Ohio during the 1960s and '70s with her two sisters and her charismatic, self-destructing mother. Evoking the claustrophobia of small-town life, Anna's first passionate love affair with a troubled boy who works as a groom and trainer at a horse track, and her mother's endless stream of suitors and a failed marriage, the novel races toward a chilling conclusion when Anna is betrayed by the two most important figures in her young life.
Not since Alice McDermott's That Night has there been such a telling portrait of first love. And not since Mona Simpson's Anywhere But Here have we witnessed the destructive, seductive nature of a mother who insists on competing with her children. An unforgettable tale of the power and vulnerability of sex and family, history and the past, House Under Snow is a lyrical and brilliant fictional debut.
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Publisher's Weekly-Rezension
Bialosky is an editor at Norton, already esteemed as a poet (Subterranean), and this lacerating first novel bears many traces of a poet's imagery and concentration. It is the story of a mother with three young daughters, devastated by the accidental death of her husband and the toll it takes on all their lives. Hardest hit is the mother, insecure but sexually enticing Lilly Crane, whose dreamy self-regard quickly turns rancid. She spends hours primping for new boyfriends, enters into a hasty and doomed second marriage and gradually, as her romantic disasters accumulate, withdraws into sleep and forgetfulness. It is a terrifying portrait, drawn with a fierce mix of love, regret and open-eyed candor. Her 15-year-old daughter Anna, the narrator, has many crosses to bear; apart from worrying about her sisters, 14-year-old Louise and 16-year-old Ruthie, both of whom find their own uneasy escapes from an intolerable situation, she suffers the agonies of a first love with a boy she depends on until she gradually realizes he is more fragile than she is. These relationships, drawn with great subtlety and an almost Lawrentian poetry and sensuality, are at the heart of the book, but the setting - suburban Cleveland in the '60s and '70s - is also evoked with telling detail and a wondrous sense of the difficulties of endurance. The central image, of a life almost stifled out of existence, is brilliantly maintained, and the ultimate effect of the book is to evoke a powerful sense of life's infinite mysteries, flourishing amid its squalors and terrors. (July 2) Forecast: The transition from poet to novelist is not easily made, but some strong advance blurbs by the likes of Frederick Busch and Jennifer egan, plus some likely powerful reviews, should help spread word of a notable new talent in fiction. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus-Rezension
A debut novel by poet Bialosky (Wanting a Child, 1998) about a young woman's attempt to come to terms with her unhappy childhood. Anna Crane is going to be married. That's enough to make anyone wistful, but Anna has another reason to be jittery: The wedding will be in her hometown of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, where she hasn't set foot since she basically ran away from home decades ago. A middle child, Anna was the second daughter of Lilly and Lawrence Crane, a happy Russian-Jewish couple from Cleveland. Lawrence was a builder who made good money during the housing boom of the 1950s and settled his family in a beautiful home far removed from the grit of midwestern city life-but died suddenly in 1961 while changing a light bulb. Lilly's grief knew no bounds: Not only had she lost her husband, she found herself thrown on the mercy of in-laws who considered her beneath Lawrence in the first place. With no intention of working, Lilly began cultivating men the way gardeners do plants, finally marrying the rich but unpleasant (and gentile) Max McCarthy. Anna puts up with her mother's flirtatious ways better than her older sister Ruthie-who goes to live with her aunt after her mother remarries-but that's partly because Anna feels she has more to learn than her sister. For some time, after all, the teenaged Anna has been obsessing over Austin Cooper, a hapless but handsome classmate who has dropped out of school to work as a stablehand. An ignoramus and a gambler, Austin is the wrong man for Anna, but she falls for him in the hopeless style of the young and becomes pregnant. Meanwhile, Lilly, who has been telling Anna what she must do to "win" Austin, seems to be taking an interest in him herself. Soap opera, but a pretty good one, with a feel for the era (the '70s), and a nicely satisfying end.
Booklist-Rezension
When their father died, 4-year-old Anna Crane and her two sisters lost their sense of security that comes with the certainty of routines and traditions. To Anna's bereft mother, who at first confined herself to the house, cutting out magazine images of what she thought a life should look like, a life was worthless without a man to love, and so she sets out to find the girls a father in a reckless succession of dates, often leaving them alone at night in her shameless quest for validation. Anna grows to be an introspective young woman who becomes a mediator in a family torn apart by despondency and the absence of love. When she becomes involved in a tender relationship with a boy, he, too, begins a downward spiral that eerily resembles the abandonment and darkness she experiences at home. Bialosky's haunting first novel aches with the sensitivity of a soulful girl who is discovering love, sexuality, and the pain of unsurpassable betrayal. Elsa Gaztambide.
Library Journal-Rezension
Poet Bialosky (Subterranean) perfectly captures the confusion, passion, and pain of teenage love in her first novel. Anna Crane narrates the story of her childhood during the Sixties and Seventies, when she lived in a small Ohio town. During high school, she falls in love with Austin, a boy who works as a groom and trainer at the horse track. But this novel is not just another saga of teen love; it is also the story of Anna's two sisters and, most dramatically, of their mother's desperate and self-destructive race to look beautiful, go out on dates, and remarry after the early death of her first husband. When the parallel romances of mother and daughter converge, this haunting and powerful novel ends with a shattering realization. The characters are original and clearly defined, the story is well paced and plotted, and the writing is poetic and lyrical. This stunning fictional debut is recommended for all public libraries. Yvette W. Olson, City Univ. Lib., Bellevue, WA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.