Name: The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen - Winner of the RSL Christopher Bland Prize von Julia Parry
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The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen - Winner of the RSL Christopher Bland Prize Zusammenfassung

The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen - Winner of the RSL Christopher Bland Prize Julia Parry

** Winner of the RSL Christopher Bland Prize **

Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents - the critically acclaimed biography with never-before-seen letters detailing the affair.

For readers who were swept up in Laura Cumming's On Chapel Sands, Daniel Mendelsohn's An Odyssey and Francesca Wade's Square Haunting.

A death in the family delivers Julia Parry a box of letters. Dusty with age, they reveal a secret love affair between the celebrated novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the academic Humphry House - Julia's grandfather.

So begins a life-changing quest to understand the affair, which had profound repercussions for Julia's family, not least her grandmother, Madeline. Julia traces these three very different characters through 1930s Oxford and Ireland, Texas, Calcutta in the last days of Empire, and on into World War II. With a supporting cast that includes Isaiah Berlin and Virginia Woolf, The Shadowy Third opens up a world with complex attitudes to love and sex, duty and ambition, and to writing itself.

The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen - Winner of the RSL Christopher Bland Prize Bewertungen

'It's very epistolary and very beautiful, particularly with Bowen's letters which are astonishingly beautiful, complex and intense. It's like reading one of Elizabeth Bowen's great novels' - RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE

'A fascinating and moving portrait of love, loyalty and infidelity.' - SARAH WATERS

'Marvellous, gently elegiac, beautifully written, and fascinating.' - JOHN BANVILLE, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

'Bowen fans will be in her debt.' - PETER J. CONRADI

'As literary discoveries go, it's a big one.' - SUNDAY TIMES

'An essay of rare sensitivity and intelligent reflection.' - TELEGRAPH

'Fascinating and poetic.' - IRISH TIMES

'A judicious moment-by-moment account of these complicated characters.' - SPECTATOR

Über Julia Parry

Julia Parry was brought up in West Africa and educated at St Andrews and Oxford. She teaches English literature and has worked as a writer and photographer for a variety of publications and charitable organisations. She splits her time between London and Madrid. The Shadowy Third is her first book. For more information, visit: www.juliaparry.co.uk

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GOR011180058

ISBN 13

9780715653579

ISBN 10

0715653571

Titel

The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen - Winner of the RSL Christopher Bland Prize Julia Parry

Autor

Julia Parry

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

Duckworth Books

Datum

20210225

Anzahl der Seiten

384

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