The Last September - Couverture souple

Bowen, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140183043 ISBN 13 : 9780140183047

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1990

Synopsis

A social comedy depicting Anglo-Irish life at the troublesome time of 1920, by the author of THE HOTEL, FRIENDS AND RELATIONS and A WORLD OF LOVE. Originally published by Cape in 1929.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"A combination of social comedy and private tragedy...brilliant description of Anglo-Irish life at the troublesome time of 1920" (Times Literary Supplement)

"She is a major writer; her name should appear on any responsible list of the ten most important fiction writers on this side of the Atlantic this century. She is what happened after Bloomsbury...the link that connects Virginia Woolf with Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark" (Victoria Glendinning)

"A strongly autobiographical portrait of a lost class marking out its final moments - every garden party, every house guest and every flirtation is touched by a sense of impending extinction" (Guardian)

"Posterity will one day return to Miss Bowen's novels as a repository of clues to the inner life of our times" (Sunday Telegraph)

"When I read [The Last September] I was knocked out by the sheer magnificence of her writing, the cinematic possibilities, and her obsession with the minutiae and the detail of life... I was totally gripped by the story" (Deborah Warner Glasgow Herald)

Présentation de l'éditeur

The famly at the 'big house' are in an equivocal position. Interest and tradition should make them support the British but affection ties them to the now resistant people of the surrounding country. Meanwhile, tennis parties and dances are still held, against a background of ambushes and burings. Young officers dance and flirt, or, armed, they patrol the countryside. Faint vibrations of trouble which she cannot understand reach the young girl Lois, who at the same time takes nothing for granted: hse is a child of the transition period. Time is not standing still, and no one really belives that it is. Fate is moving in the direction of this apparently immune and remote place. The young are set to be desolating free, the old desolated, by a violent act.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140183043
• ISBN 13: 9780140183047
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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