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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.
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"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)
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"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)
A tangle of friends and relations gives us Bowen's most personal and domestic novel
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- PublisherAvon Books
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0380496011
- ISBN 13 9780380496013
- BindingPaperback
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