{"product_id":"seven-steeples-sara-baume-9798200946419","title":"Seven Steeples","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt takes both daring and humility to write a book as unique as \u003ci\u003eSeven Steeples\u003c\/i\u003e. In unfailingly precise and lyrical prose, and with a religious attention to even the humblest things of this world, Sara Baume pays homage to nature, to hearth and home, and to the miracle of a love engendered by the union of two solitaries. --Sigrid Nunez, author of the National Book Award Winner \u003ci\u003eThe Friend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eA stunning, powerful new novel about a couple that pushes against traditional expectations, moving with their dogs to the Irish countryside where they embed themselves in nature and make attempts to disappear from society.\u003c\/b\u003e It is the winter following the summer they met. A couple, Bell and Sigh, move into a remote house in the Irish countryside with their dogs. Both solitary with misanthropic tendencies, they leave the conventional lives stretched out before them to build another--one embedded in ritual, and away from the friends and family from whom they've drifted. They arrive at their new home on a clear January day and look up to appraise the view. A mountain gently and unspectacularly ascends from the Atlantic, as if it had accumulated stature over centuries. As if, over centuries, it had steadily flattened itself upwards. They make a promise to climb the mountain, but--over the course of the next seven years--it remains unclimbed. We move through the seasons with Bell and Sigh as they come to understand more about the small world around them, and as their interest in the wider world recedes. \u003ci\u003eSeven Steeples \u003c\/i\u003eis a beautiful and profound meditation on the nature of love and the resilience of nature. Through Bell and Sigh, and the life they create for themselves, Sara Baume explores what it means to escape the traditional paths laid out before us--and what it means to evolve in devotion to another person, and to the landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara Baume\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 820094641X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798200946419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e HarperAudio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e MP3 CD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs","brand":"Sara Baume","offers":[{"title":"MP3 CD","offer_id":44076374294783,"sku":"9798200946419","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b05fb931-4aba-4f33-8ba0-c293a4e6915d.jpg?v=1685464649","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/seven-steeples-sara-baume-9798200946419","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}