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24%OFFElizabeth Bowen - Bowen's Court & Seven Winters - 9780099287797 - V9780099287797
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Bowen's Court & Seven Winters

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Description for Bowen's Court & Seven Winters Paperback. "Bowen's Court" describes the history of the author's Anglo-Irish family in County Cork, from the Cromwellian sttlement until 1959. In "Seven Winters", Elizabeth Bowen recalls, with endearing candour, her family and Dublin childhood. Num Pages: 544 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BG; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 382.

Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved. Bowen reviews ten generations of her family, representatives of the Protestant Irish gentry whose lives were dominated by property, lawsuits, formidable matriarchs, violent conflicts, hunting, drinking, and self-destructive fantasies.

Seven Winters recalls with endearing candour Bowen's family and her Dublin childhood as seen through the eyes of a child who could not read till she was seven and who fed her imagination only on sights and sounds.

Product Details

Publisher
Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099287797
SKU
V9780099287797
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About Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and landowner. 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 short stories, Encounters, was published in 1923. The Hotel (1927) was her first ... Read more

Reviews for Bowen's Court & Seven Winters
Interesting, beautiful and important
New Statesman
She startles us by sheer originality of mind and boldness of sensibility into seeking our world afresh
V.S. Pritchett Thrillingly convoluted
Guardian

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