Friends And Relations (Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Bowen, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140182993 ISBN 13: 9780140182996

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1990

Synopsis

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 comedy, and it enables Elizabeth Bowen to create two of her most memorable characters - Lady Elfrida, a creature of privilege, and Theodora Thirdman, the gawky and obtrusive adolescent who carries her emotionalism into adult life.

About this title

Review:

"Bowen is a tough old bird. And once you're on her side, it's going to be a loyal alliance. Because it's nice to have a writer who will never lie to you. Not even to make you feel a little better" (Kirkus)

"Bowen wrote numerous great novels, including Friends and Relations...about how telephones have infiltrated our thinking and desires: waiting for a call, being interrupted by a call, not knowing what might be announced" (Guardian)

"There is much to savour, enjoy, intrigue and shock in this wonderful novel. Bowen is sublime" (Book Snob)

Book Description:

A tangle of friends and relations gives us Bowen's most personal and domestic novel

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140182993
• ISBN 13: 9780140182996
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160