Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899. She wrote many acclaimed short stories and novels, including The Heat of the Day, The Death of the Heart, The Last September, and Eva Trout. She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1948. She died in 1973."
"A witty, lucid, and beautiful psychological novel.. . . By far her
best book."--The New Yorker
"Bowen is a major writer. . . . She is what happened after
Bloomsbury . . . the link that connects Virginia Woolf with Iris
Murdoch and Muriel Spark."--Victoria Glendinning
"Bowen writes with both art and skillful artifice. . . . [The]
quality of restraint, of the unsaid, gives her novel its curious
tautness and intensity."--The New York Times
"[The Death of the Heart] manages to make a major statement about
human character. . . . We finish the book with that sense fiction
nowadays rarely communicates, of life's having been mysteriously
enlarged."--The New Yorker"
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