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The Death Of The Heart

The Death Of The Heart

by ElizabethBowen (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

    $11.54

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    Paperback 1986

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Synopsis

It is London in the late 1930s, and into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her depth. Disconcertingly vulnerable, Portia is manifestly trying to understand what is going on around her and looking for something that is not there. Evident victim, she is also an inadvertent victimiser - her impossible lovingness and austere trust being too much for her admirer Eddie, who is himself defensive and uncomfortable in this society which has managed to bring them together. In the midst of the rising tension is set perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's most brilliant piece of social comedy, when, at a seaside villa full of rollicking young people, Portia experiences at least temporary relief from the misery Eddie seems determined to bring her.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 14 May 1998
ISBN 10: 0099276453
ISBN 13: 9780099276456
Book Overview: Bowen's best known book. A piercing story of innocence betrayed.

Media Reviews
Bowen is the link that connects Virginia Woolf with Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark. -- Victoria Glendinning
Ironic comedy as well as tragedy, The Death of the Heart tells a story as old as wickedness: the world's betrayal of innocence * TIME Magazine, 1939 *
Bowen had a genius for conveying the reader straight into the most powerful and complex regions of the heart * New York Times *
Author Bio
Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and land-owner. She travelled a great deal, dividing most of her time between London and Bowen's Court, the family house in County Cork which she inherited. Her first book, a collection of shorts stories, Encounters, was published in 1923. The Hotel (1926) was her first novel. She was awarded the CBE in 1948, and received honorary degrees from Trinity College, Dublin in 1949, and from Oxford University in 1956. The Royal Society of Literature made her a Companion of Literature in 1965. Elizabeth Bowen died in 1973.