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It's the balmy days of the 1920s and where could be more pleasant for a holiday than a hotel on the Italian Riviera? Filled with prosperous English visitors, the Hotel offers a closed world of wealth and comfort. It also provides the stage for the display of social niceties, for passionate but unspoken love affairs and for the comedy of the shared bathroom. With great wit and insight Elizabeth Bowen's first novel lays bare the intricacies and eccentricities of polite society.
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"The worlds Bowen creates are so immediately absorbing, the glimpses she allows us of the eccentricities of other people's relationships so fascinating, that one cannot help wanting more" (Selina Hastings)
"Those qualities which Elizabeth Bowen's prose exemplifies: a formidable precision of writing, a faithful delineation of mood and place - an aspiration towards the absolute truthfulness of the individual vision-If there is anything to the catchphrase "life felt", it is here - in Elizabeth Bowen's munificence of detail, the fine closeness of the atmosphere which she creates" (Peter Ackroyd)
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"Those qualities which Elizabeth Bowen's prose exemplifies: a formidable precision of writing, a faithful delineation of mood and place - an aspiration towards the absolute truthfulness of the individual vision-If there is anything to the catchphrase "life felt", it is here - in Elizabeth Bowen's munificence of detail, the fine closeness of the atmosphere which she creates" (Peter Ackroyd)
The first novel from one of the twentieth century's most admired and stylish writers
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THE HOTEL : A Novel (Avon 48546)
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Text/Near New w/faint margin discoloration. Softcover/Good w/edge & surface rubs, and creasing & lean to spine from faulty shelving. Text blocked dyed red. 1st novel of Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973). First published 1928; this is a reprint of 1980. It's the balmy days o the Italian Riveraf the 1920s when "God made the English, and the English made the world". Vintage, historical novel set in a hotel catering to prosperous Brits offering a closed world to the rich. A setting where overt social niceties are lavishly on display while love affairs kept unspoken --- to this, add comedies of a shared bathroom! Iintricacies & eccentricities of polite society presented with much wit & humor, as a new, contemporary set of social mores take sway. Seller Inventory # 019997
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