The Hotel
$29.58
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2003
Summary
The first novel from one of the twentieth century’s most admired and stylish writers.
It’s the balmy days of the 1920s and where could be more pleasant for a holiday than a hotel on the Italian Riviera? Filled with prosperous English visitors, the Hotel offers a closed world of wealth and comfort. It also provides the stage for the display of social niceties, for passionate but unspoken love affairs and for the comedy of the shared bathroom. With great wit and insight Elizabeth Bowen’…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099284758 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099284758 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Bowen |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2003 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics |
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The worlds Bowen creates are so immediately absorbing, the glimpses she allows us of the eccentricities of other people’s relationships so fascinating, that one cannot help wanting more
The worlds Bowen creates are so immediately absorbing, the glimpses she allows us of the eccentricities of other people’s relationships so fascinating, that one cannot help wanting more – Selina HastingsThose qualities which Elizabeth Bowen’s prose exemplifies: a formidable precision of writing, a faithful delineation of mood and place - an aspiration towards the absolute truthfulness of the individual vision-If there is anything to the catchphrase “life felt”, it is here - in Elizabeth Bowen’s munificence of detail, the fine closeness of the atmosphere which she creates – Peter Ackroyd
About The Author
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and land-owner. She travelled a great deal, dividing most of her time between London and Bowen’s Court, the family house in County Cork which she inherited. Her first book, a collection of shorts stories, Encounters, was published in 1923. The Hotel (1926) was her first novel. She was awarded the CBE in 1948, and received honorary degrees from Trinity College, Dublin in 1949, and from Oxford University in 1956. The Royal Society of Literature made her a Companion of Literature in 1965. Elizabeth Bowen died in 1973.
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