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.
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