Eva Trout - Brossura

Bowen, Elizabeth

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099287749 ISBN 13: 9780099287742

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 1999

Riassunto

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEY

Imposing, rich, unloved and with a genius for unreality; Eva Trout has a 'capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble, strewing trouble around her' that is endless. Eva Trout was Elizabeth Bowen's last completed novel, and in it her elegant style, her gift for social comedy and her intense sensibility combine to create one of her most formidable - and moving - heroines.

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Recensione:

"Resonant, beautiful and often very funny... Eva is triumphantly real, a creation of great imaginative tenderness" (Financial Times)

"Elizabeth Bowen was one of the handful of great English novelist of this century and must be ranked beside Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green, and Ford Madox Ford" (Edmund White Washington Post)

"Eva is the larger-than-life, some would say monstrous, culmination of a subject that haunted Bowen's work: the neglected, or misplaced, child" (New York Times)

"I still remember the electrifying effect it had upon me when it was published in 1969. At various stages of life I have become almost possessed by it... The book shimmers with life in every paragraph" (A. N. Wilson Daily Telegraph)

"A subtle, elusive novel making its mysterious way forward by side glances and half-gleams, by sudden small illuminations and half-hidden ironies, by a tenderness that is half-mocking and a mockery that is half-tender" (Evening Standard)

Descrizione del libro:

Elizabeth Bowen's last novel, a character study of startling originality which many consider to be her best work

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• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0099287749
• ISBN 13: 9780099287742
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288