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Elizabeth Bowen began reviewing books in August 1935. By that time she was already an experienced fiction writer with four short-story collections and four novels to her credit. This fascinating collection of reviews is filled with first impressions of novels, autobiographies, memoirs, illustrated books, biographies of politicians and artists, short-story collections, and literary criticism.

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In her eclectic reviews, Bowen offers a comparably generous refusal to simplify. Her loyalty is to the fiction that shows human existence to be a "fascinating (if maddening), iridescent, quivering, mysterious, and, above all, exciting affair". As she might have put it, "certainly read this book"" - Times Literary Supplement, March 17 2017.

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/30/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810131569, 978-0810131569
      ISBN10: 0810131560
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Elizabeth Bowen began reviewing books in August 1935. By that time she was already an experienced fiction writer with four short-story collections and four novels to her credit. This fascinating collection of reviews is filled with first impressions of novels, autobiographies, memoirs, illustrated books, biographies of politicians and artists, short-story collections, and literary criticism.

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      In her eclectic reviews, Bowen offers a comparably generous refusal to simplify. Her loyalty is to the fiction that shows human existence to be a "fascinating (if maddening), iridescent, quivering, mysterious, and, above all, exciting affair". As she might have put it, "certainly read this book"" - Times Literary Supplement, March 17 2017.

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