The Long View (Paperback, New Edition)

With an introduction by Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall. Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one woman. Observant and heartbreaking, written with exhilarating wit, it is a gut-wrenching account of the birth and death of a relationship - as extraordinary as it is timeless. One of his secret pleasures was the loading of social dice against himself. He did not seem for one moment to consider the efforts made by kind or sensitive people to even things up: or if such notions ever occurred to him, he would have observed them with detached amusement, and reloaded more dice. In 1950s London, Antonia Fleming faces the prospect of a life lived alone. Her children are now adults; her husband Conrad, a domineering and emotionally complex man, is a stranger. As Antonia looks towards her future, the novel steadily moves backwards in time, tracing Antonia's relationship with Conrad to its beginning in the 1920s, through years of mistake and motherhood, dreams and war.

General

Imprint:	Picador
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Picador Classic
Release date:	February 2016
Authors:	Elizabeth Jane Howard
Dimensions:	197 x 130 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	459
Edition:	New Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4472-7224-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	1-4472-7224-2
Barcode:	9781447272243

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