FRIENDS AND RELATIONS, of all Elizabeth Bowen's novels, is perhaps the most personal and the most domestic. This is a view of life in a moneyed upper-middle class enjoying its sunset of prosperity, security and complacency - and by no means free from triviality. But its very narrowness is rich in co
Friends and Relations: A Novel
β Scribed by Bowen, Elizabeth
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 121 KB
- Edition
- University of Chicago Press edition
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
"During a soft English summer in the 1920s, the Studdart sisters marry and set up house, one in London and one in a country estate. However, things are not as they seem. Using careful, elliptical prose interspersed with quips and populated by memorable characters, Elizabeth Bowen reveals how these seemingly placid lives are anchored in lies"--Page 4 of cover.
β¦ Subjects
A Novel
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