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 /5(26). · 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 s, facing a dearth of young men after the first World Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. The Hotel is Elizabeth Bowen’s first novel, published in , the same year that Virginia Woolf published To t ”An hotel, you know, is a great place for friendships.” “Mustn’t that be,” said Ronald, “what people come out for?”/5(60).
Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in , the only child of an Irish lawyer and landowner. She was educated at Downe House School in Kent. Her book Bowen's Court () is the history of her family and their house in County Cork, and Seven Winters () contains reminiscences of her Dublin childhood. 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. The Hotel [Elizabeth Bowen] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Hotel.
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. The Hotel was a comfortable hotel on the Italian Riviera, run for prosperous English visitors. It was a closed world of wealth and a setting for the inexhaustible comedy of casual personal relationships among a variety of 'nice' people, all English, all wittily reflected with characteristic vivacity. Bowen's first novel, "The Hotel," is a wonderful introduction to her disarming, perceptive style. Following a group of British tourists vacationing on the Italian Riviera during the s, "The Hotel" explores the social and emotional relationships that develop among the well-heeled residents of the eponymous establishment.
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