Elizabeth Bowen: A Biography by Glendinning, Victoria
Elizabeth Bowen: A Biography by Glendinning, Victoria

Elizabeth Bowen: A Biography

In this richly detailed biography, Victoria Glendinning brings alive the great Anglo-Irish novelist whose literary achievements were...
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Author: Victoria Glendinning
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Elizabeth Bowen: A Biography by Glendinning, Victoria

Elizabeth Bowen: A Biography

$39.72
Elizabeth Bowen: A Biography by Glendinning, Victoria

Elizabeth Bowen: A Biography

$39.72
Author: Victoria Glendinning
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
In this richly detailed biography, Victoria Glendinning brings alive the great Anglo-Irish novelist whose literary achievements were equaled only by her unbounded gift for living. Taking us from Elizabeth Bowen's ancestral home in Ireland, Bowen's Court, to Oxford where she met Yeats and Eliot, to her service as an air-raid warden in London during World War II, this penetrating biography lifts the thin veil between Bowen's imaginative world and the complex emotional life that fired her shimmering novels. We see her at elegant parties, where such friends as Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, and Evelyn Waugh fell under her spell; in post-war Vienna with Graham Greene; and in war-torn London, where she fell in love with a younger man who was unprepared for life at the pitch she lived it. We see her bound through several affairs to a comfortable marriage, living "life with the lid on." The world of Elizabeth Bowen was akin to that of her novels: no one behaved shockingly, yet the passions that stirred within made her a master of the ultimate suspense of human relationships-the life of the heart.

Author: Victoria Glendinning
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 12/05/2006
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.24w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780307277404


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2007 pg. 131

About the Author
Victoria Glendinning was born in the north of England and read French and Spanish at Oxford. Her first book was A Suppressed Cry, a family memoir about her Quaker great-aunt. She has written biographies of Edith Sitwell (which won the James Tait Black Award and the Duff Cooper Prize), Vita Sackville-West (Whitbread Prize for Biography), Rebecca West, Anthony Trollope (Whitbread Prize for Biography), Jonathan Swift, and Leonard Woolf. She co-edited Mothers and Sons with her son Matthew Glendinning, and has published three novels, The Grown-Ups, Electricity, and Flight. She reviews books for national newspapers and journals, has been a judge of the W. H. Smith Prize and other literary awards, and chair of the judges of the Booker Prize. From 2000-03 she was president of English PEN. She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and was awarded a CBE in 1998.


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