The Death of the Heart (Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Bowen, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140183000 ISBN 13: 9780140183009

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1990

Synopsis

Set in London during the 1930s, this is a tale of innocence betrayed, of passion, misunderstanding and the emotional atrophy of grown-ups. When 16-year-old Portia comes to stay with her cool, elegant relations in Windsor Terrace, she meets Eddie, an attractive young philanderer, and falls in love. From the author of THE HEAT OF THE DAY.

About this title

Review:

"A witty, lucid, and beautiful psychological novel.. . . By far her best book." --The New Yorker

"Bowen is a major writer. . . . She is what happened after Bloomsbury . . . the link that connects Virginia Woolf with Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark." --Victoria Glendinning

"Bowen writes with both art and skillful artifice. . . . [The] quality of restraint, of the unsaid, gives her novel its curious tautness and intensity." --The New York Times

"[The Death of the Heart] manages to make a major statement about human character. . . . We finish the book with that sense fiction nowadays rarely communicates, of life's having been mysteriously enlarged." --The New Yorker

Book Description:

Bowen's best known book. A piercing story of innocence betrayed.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140183000
• ISBN 13: 9780140183009
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320