A View of the Harbour
Autor*in: Taylor, Elizabeth
Jahr: 2015
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 320 S.
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- ""Are we to go on until we are old, with just these odd moments here and there and danger always so narrowly evaded? Love draining away our vitality, our hold on life, never adding anything to us." Blindness and betrayal are Elizabeth Taylor's great subjects, and in A View of the Harbour she turns her unsparing gaze on the emotional and sexual politics of a seedy seaside town that's been left behind by modernity. Tory, recently divorced, is having an affair with her neighbor Robert, a doctor, whose wife, Beth, is Tory's best friend. Beth notices nothing--an author of melodramatic novels, she is too busy with them to mind her house or its inhabitants--but her daughter Prudence knows what is up and is appalled. Gossip spreads in the little community, and Taylor's view widens to take in a range of characters from senile, snoopy Mrs. Bracey; to a young, widowed proprietor of the local waxworks, Lily Wilson; to the would-be artist Bertram. Taylor's novel is a beautifully observed and written examination of the fictions around which we construct our lives and manage our losses"--
- Elizabeth Taylor (1912â€"1975) was born into a middleÂ-class family in Berkshire, England. She held a variety of positions, including librarian and governess, before marrying a businessman in 1936. Nine years later, her first novel,At Mrs. Lippincote’s, appeared. She would go on to publish eleven more novels, includingAngel and A Game of Hide and Seek (both available as NYRB Classics), four collections of short stories (many of which originally appeared inThe New Yorker, Harper’s, and other magazines), and a children’s book,Mossy Trotter, while living with her husband and two children in BuckinghamÂshire. Long championed by Ivy ComptonÂ-Burnett, Barbara Pym, Robert Liddell, Kingsley Amis, and Elizabeth Jane Howard, Taylor’s novels and stories have been the basis for a number of films, including Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), starring Joan Plowright, and François Ozon’sAngel (2007). In 2014, NYRB Classics published You’ll Enjoy It When You Get There,a selection of Taylor’s stories, edited by Margaret Drabble. Roxana Robinson is the author of eight works of fiction, including the novelsCost and Sparta. She is also the author of Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life. A Guggenheim fellow, she editedThe New York Stories of Edith Wharton, published by NYRB Classics in 2007.
Titelinformationen
Titel: A View of the Harbour
Autor*in: Taylor, Elizabeth
Verlag: Random House Digital Dist
ISBN: 9781590178492
Kategorie: Belletristik & Unterhaltung, Romane & Erzählungen
Max. Ausleihdauer: 21 Tage