{"product_id":"cities-of-the-interior-anas-nin-9780804006668","title":"Cities of the Interior","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLadders to Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Albatross\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Four-Chambered Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Spy in the House of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSeduction of the Minotaur\u003c\/i\u003e. Haunting and hypnotic, these five novels by Ana? Nin began in 1946 to appear in quiet succession. Though published separately over the next fifteen years, the five were conceived as a continuous experience-a continuous novel like Proust's, real and flowing as a river.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe full impact of Ana? Nin's genius is only to be found through reading the novels in context and in succession. They form a rich, luminous tapestry whose overall theme Nin has called \"woman at war with herself.\" Characters, symbols appear and reappear: now one, now another unfolding, gradually revealing, changing, struggling, growing, and Nin had forged an evocative language all her own for the telling.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The diary taught me that there were no neat ends to novels, no neat denouement, no neat synthesis,\" she explains. \"So I began an endless novel, a novel in which the climaxes consisted of discoveries in awareness, each step in awareness becoming a stage in the growth like the layers in trees.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCities of the Interior\u003c\/i\u003e fulfills a long-time desire on the part of readers, publisher, and Ana? Nin herself to reunite the five novels in a single volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ana? Nin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804006660\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804006668\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.49h x 5.54w x 1.26d","brand":"Ana? Nin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047789293823,"sku":"9780804006668","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_76a298c9-64e3-4556-b34b-2af610ebbaaa.jpg?v=1684992186","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cities-of-the-interior-anas-nin-9780804006668","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}