The Last September - Softcover

Bowen, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 009927647X ISBN 13: 9780099276470

Publisher: Vintage, 1998

Synopsis

This title is presented with an introduction by Victoria Glendinning. The Irish troubles rage, but up at the 'Big House', tennis parties, dances and flirtations with the English officers continue, undisturbed by the ambushes, arrests and burning country beyond the gates. Faint vibrations of discord reach the young girl Lois, who is straining for her own freedom, and she will witness the troubles surge closer and reach their irrevocable, inevitable climax.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.
In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and their friends maintain a skeptical attitude toward the events going on around them, but behind the facade of tennis parties and army camp dances, all know that the end is approaching--the end of British rule in the south of Ireland and the demise of a way of life that had survived for centuries. Their niece, Lois Farquar, attempts to live her own life and gain her own freedoms from the very class that her elders are vainly defending. The Last September depicts the tensions between love and the longing for freedom, between tradition and the terrifying prospect of independence, both political and spiritual.
"Brilliant.... A successful combination of social comedy and private tragedy."--"The Times Literary Supplement (London)

From the Back Cover:

"Brilliant.... A successful combination of social comedy and private tragedy."--The Times Literary Supplement (London)

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 009927647X
• ISBN 13: 9780099276470
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224