{"product_id":"the-malefactors","title":"The Malefactors Book","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eBy Caroline Gordon\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Home is where the heart is, but the heart,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003enowadays, is on the run.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom and Vera Claiborne \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003ehave settled at Blencker’s Brook with a motley assortment of friends, family, and literati. Despite life being “a party every day,” a deepening sense of disaffection develops among its inhabitants: Tom, frustrated by his poetic impotency, takes a mistress; his cousin and his wife offer psychiatric theories and treatments; and Vera throws herself into farming and animal husbandry—all of them seeking to find what once was lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eGordon’s second-to-last novel, originally published in 1956, \u003ci\u003eThe Malefactors\u003c\/i\u003e, so perfectly captures the enervated carnality and marmoreal frigidity of the Lost Generation, and the ensuing need and desire for meaning, that Flannery O’Connor called it “undoubtedly the most serious and successful fictional treatment of a conversion by an American writer to date.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaroline Gordon \u003c\/b\u003e(1895–1981) was an American novelist and critic. Her writing earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship and O. Henry Award and a prominent place in the Southern Renaissance. A convert to the Catholic faith, she was friend and mentor to Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and others. Robert Penn Warren praised her for “enriching our literature uniquely.” Her works include \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Children\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHow to Read a Novel\u003c\/i\u003e, and (with Allen Tate)\u003ci\u003e The House of Fiction: An Anthology of the Short Story\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 292pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e978-1950970179\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- \/wp:paragraph --\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68275443171549,"sku":"978-1950970179","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/ProductImages_214.jpg?v=1792889729","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-malefactors","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}