The Heat of the Day
Bowen, Elizabeth
Book Club edition. First US edition. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1949. Hardcover. Dust jacket is worn at edges, and has some loss at top of spine. A 1 cm closed year on top edge of cover. Small chip at bottom left corner of cover. Inscription of owner's name inside on first page.
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Why it's in the Cabin
A classic of wartime literature. The novel masterfully evokes the anxious and dislocated atmosphere of London under bombardment, where personal relationships are tested by secrecy, betrayal, and the constant presence of death.
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Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen was a masterful chronicler of the "Anglo-Irish" identity and the psychological dislocations of the world wars, known for a style that combined exquisite sensory detail with a pervasive sense of unease. Her prose is famously "crooked" and ornate, designed to capture the atmospheric tension of the Big House tradition in Ireland or the heightened, spectral reality of London during the Blitz. While she was a mainstay of the mid-century literary establishment and highly regarded by peers like Virginia Woolf, she was occasionally misunderstood by critics who mistook her subtle social observations for mere "novels of manners."
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