WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. N. WILSONThroughout these seventy-nine stories - love stories,ghost stories,stories of childhood,of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties,of London during the Blitz - Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage,perception and vision in an oeuvre which reveals,as Angus Wilson affirms in his introduction,that'the instinctive artist is there at the very heart of her work'.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099287735Number of pages: 896Weight: 607 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 39 mm
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Bowen's stories show the awesome capabilities of the English language and the surprise and mystery of the human soulBowen's stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked crystals which have formed them
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