The Heat of the Day - Softcover

Bowen, Elizabeth

3.4

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ISBN 10: 0140018441 ISBN 13: 9780140018448

Publisher: Penguin, 1979

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"Imagine a Graham Greene thriller projected through the sensibility of Virginia Woolf." --The Atlantic Monthly

"[Bowen] startles us by sheer originality of mind and boldness of sensibility into seeking our world afresh. . . . Out of the plainest things--the drawing of a curtain--she can make something electric and urgent." --V. S. Pritchett
"Dense as a poem with symbol and suggestion. . . . The work of a writer [of] rich and winning gifts." --Time

"Miss Bowen [has] power to evoke, suggest and explore down oblique and little-frequented avenues the mysterious centers of human conduct." --The New York Times

-Imagine a Graham Greene thriller projected through the sensibility of Virginia Woolf.- --The Atlantic Monthly

-[Bowen] startles us by sheer originality of mind and boldness of sensibility into seeking our world afresh. . . . Out of the plainest things--the drawing of a curtain--she can make something electric and urgent.- --V. S. Pritchett
-Dense as a poem with symbol and suggestion. . . . The work of a writer [of] rich and winning gifts.- --Time

-Miss Bowen [has] power to evoke, suggest and explore down oblique and little-frequented avenues the mysterious centers of human conduct.- --The New York Times

Book Description:

A tense thriller of suspicion, betrayal and espionage set in wartime London

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