The Loft
$20.99
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
7 October 2025
Summary
A woman is unnerved when a sinister package arrives in the post – containing her old diary entries. Strange and gripping, this is the unmistakable work of Marlen Haushofer, mistress of sustained dread and author of the cult classic, The Wall.
An Austrian housewife sits in her loft, intent on her drawings of birds and insects. The loft is a retreat where she can work undisturbed. It is also a retreat from her dull and dissatisfied husband, a man who sighs unhappily even when s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529953473 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529953472 |
| Author: | Marlen Haushofer, Amanda Prantera |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 7 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 306g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 140mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
Her prose is a model of simplicity and concision; but the pictures which her sentences paint are enigmatic, overdetermined, elusive. We can claim her books for feminism, for eco-politics, for existentialism or psychoanalysis, or we can take them as thrillers or dreams * London Review of Books *
It is the skilful juxtaposition of internal loneliness and isolation with…[a] mysterious, chilling past that brings such emotional power to this unusual book * Daily Mail *
About The Author
Marlen Haushofer
Marlen Haushofer (1920-1970) was born in Frauenstein, Austria, the daughter of a forester. After the Second World War, she worked in her husband’s dentistry practice and had two children, but before long she began publishing short stories in magazines. She lived something of a double life, splitting her time between being a quiet, traditional housewife in Steyr, and a writer in fashionable literary circles in Vienna. Her most enduring work was The Wall, first published in 1963, and now considered a classic of dystopian fiction.
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