The Heat of the Day (Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Bowen, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140183019 ISBN 13: 9780140183016

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1990

Synopsis

A novel which draws on a recollection of wartime London to depict the effect of war on the manners, morals and emotions of those not directly engaged in the fighting. Originally published by Cape in 1949, by the author of TO THE NORTH, THE HOTEL and A WORLD OF LOVE.

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Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140183019
• ISBN 13: 9780140183016
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336