- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Classics; New Ed edition (27 May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099287773
- ISBN-13: 978-0099287773
- Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1 x 19.9 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 754,478 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Bowen writes beautifully--sometimes, in fact, so beautifully it hurts."
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A packet of letters, found in an attic, leads a young girl into the world of love. The attic is in Montefort, a corroding country house in County Cork, which harbours a group of people held together by odd ties of kinship or habit, and haunted by the memory of its former owner who was killed in France as a young man. At Montefort, under the domination of the deceased's cousin and heiress, Antonia, and in the midst of an unusually hot and dry summer, young Jane pursues her own imaginings. Not far off an immigrant from another world - a rich promiscuous, parvenue Englishwoman Lady Latterly, who will play a part in Jane's awakening.
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What a Terrific Book
14 Mar 2004
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What a terrific book. Not quite as good as the better-known 'The Death of the Heart', but well worth reading.
There are two aspects to Bowen's work which attract me. First, her language. On almost every page there is something to leave one breathless. Here's a sample:
Their tide had turned and was racing in again: here was the universe filling up -- all there had been to be, do, know, dare, live for or die for at the full came flooding to this doorstep.
That's writing of the highest sort.
Also, unlike many second-rate writers, her novels center around the relationships between the characters, not only what type of people they are, but how they know each other and how they are related. One feels they are real people, not just devices to fill up space in the plot as dictated by the author, and as with real people, things are rarely nice and tidy, and feelings get hurt. This gives her work a third dimension which is crucial to the unfolding of her novels.
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