The Hotel - Softcover

Bowen, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140004491 ISBN 13: 9780140004496

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1988

Synopsis

English vacationers enjoy their holiday on the Italian Riviera gossiping and flirting among themselves, and intrigued by the mystery surrounding Sydney Warren

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

"The worlds Bowen creates are so immediately absorbing, the glimpses she allows us of the eccentricities of other people's relationships so fascinating, that one cannot help wanting more" -- Selina Hastings "Those qualities which Elizabeth Bowen's prose exemplifies: a formidable precision of writing, a faithful delineation of mood and place - an aspiration towards the absolute truthfulness of the individual vision-If there is anything to the catchphrase "life felt", it is here - in Elizabeth Bowen's munificence of detail, the fine closeness of the atmosphere which she creates" -- Peter Ackroyd

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0140004491
• ISBN 13: 9780140004496
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176