Friends And Relations: Elizabeth Bowen - Brossura

Bowen, Elizabeth

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ISBN 10: 0099287757 ISBN 13: 9780099287759

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 1999

Riassunto

Two sisters, two weddings, just months apart. These marriages produce a tangle of friends, relations and lovers that starts to unravel ten years later, during one intense week. Two of Bowen’s most memorable characters are in attendance: Lady Elfrida, a creature of privilege, and Theodora Thirdman, a gawky teenager with zero self-awareness. The sunset of prosperity is upon this complacent, moneyed class, but Bowen’s precise and beautiful prose pins real pain and comedy upon its inhabitants.

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"Bowen is a tough old bird. And once you're on her side, it's going to be a loyal alliance. Because it's nice to have a writer who will never lie to you. Not even to make you feel a little better" (Kirkus)

"Bowen wrote numerous great novels, including Friends and Relations...about how telephones have infiltrated our thinking and desires: waiting for a call, being interrupted by a call, not knowing what might be announced" (Guardian)

"There is much to savour, enjoy, intrigue and shock in this wonderful novel. Bowen is sublime" (Book Snob)

Descrizione del libro:

A tangle of friends and relations gives us Bowen's most personal and domestic novel

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• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0099287757
• ISBN 13: 9780099287759
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 176