A View Of The Harbour
a virago modern classic
$32.39
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
23 May 2006
Summary
Newby’s Secrets: Passions and Treachery by the Harbour
INTRODUCED BY SARAH WATERS
‘Every one of her books is a treat and this is my favourite, because of its wonderful cast of characters, and because of the deftness with which Taylor’s narrative moves between them … A wonderful writer’ SARAH WATERS
In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, pass…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844083220 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844083225 |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
| Author: | Elizabeth Taylor, Sarah Waters |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 23 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 127mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
Every one of her books is a treat and this is my favourite, because of its wonderful cast of characters, and because of the deftness with which Taylor’s narrative moves between them … A wonderful writer - Sarah Waters
An eye as sharply all-seeing as her prose-style is elegant - even the humdrum becomes astonishing - DAILY TELEGRAPHIt is time that justice was done to Elizabeth Taylor… All her writings could be described as coming into the category of comedy. Comedy is the best vehicle for truths that are too fierce to be borneShe’s a favourite of this writer. I’ve read this novel, set in a seaside town in the 1940s, five times and I’m itching to read it again. There’s a mother from hell in it who makes me wince and chuckleThere is a deceptive smoothness in her tone, or tone of voice, as in that of Evelyn Waugh; not a far-fetched comparison, for in the work of both writers the funny and the appalling lie side by side in close amityHer best novels-At Mrs. Lippincote’s (1945), A View of the Harbour (1947), A Game of Hide and Seek (1951)-are, in spite of their prim titles, funny, savage and full of loneliness and suppressed emotion. For her characters, as for their author, propriety is a survival mechanism, a way of keeping the show on the road - GuardianAbout The Author
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) is increasingly recognised as one of the best British writers of the twentieth century. She wrote her first book, At Mrs Lippincote’s, during the war while her husband was in the Royal Air Force, and this was followed by eleven further novels and a children’s book, Mossy Trotter. Her acclaimed short stories appeared in publications including Vogue, the New Yorker and Harper’s Bazaar.
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