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, 319 pages, upper free endpaper signed and dedicated in blue ink by author "Menina Mesquita [secretary to Jonathan Cape]...Elizabeth Bowen...Feb 1949"
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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
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"[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
A tense thriller of suspicion, betrayal and espionage set in wartime London
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0224600559
- ISBN 13 9780224600552
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages284
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