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The Hotel

The Hotel

Bowen, Elizabeth

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ISBN10: 0593080653
ISBN13: 9780593080658
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Aug 25 2020
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Elizabeth Bowen's first novel brilliantly captures the inflammatory mixture of passion and repression among well-heeled British tourists on the Italian Riviera. Their luxurious seaside hotel seems a closed and comfortable world, marked by dramas no more momentous than tennis games, picnics, and idle gossip. But for the young women of the 1920s, facing a dearth of young men after the first World War, it is a battleground for the clash of tradition and modernity. As rebellious young Sydney Warren tests the boundaries of her incomplete freedom--and becomes obsessed with a clever and charming older woman--she increasingly bewilders her suitors, her handlers, and herself. With the psychological precision and command of atmosphere that marks Bowen's most famous novels, The Hotel depicts a collection of privileged men and women in determined denial of a world that is falling apart around them.

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