＂Intense and illuminating...a highly readable, compassionate
account of a woman as subtly complex and delightfully witty as the
novels she wrote.＂ —Chicago Tribune
＂As a complex and compelling personality, Miss Bowen comes very
much to life on these pages...entirely absorbing.＂ —The New York
Times
內容簡介：
In this richly detailed biography, Victoria Glendinning brings
alive the great Anglo-Irish novelist whose literary achievements
were equaled only by her unbounded gift for living.
Taking us from Elizabeth Bowen''s ancestral home in Ireland, Bowen’s
Court, to Oxford where she met Yeats and Eliot, to her service as
an air-raid warden in London during World War II, this penetrating
biography lifts the thin veil between Bowen''s imaginative world and
the complex emotional life that fired her shimmering novels. We see
her at elegant parties, where such friends as Virginia Woolf,
Eudora Welty, and Evelyn Waugh fell under her spell; in post-war
Vienna with Graham Greene; and in war-torn London, where she fell
in love with a younger man who was unprepared for life at the pitch
she lived it. We see her bound through several affairs to a
comfortable marriage, living "life with the lid on." The world of
Elizabeth Bowen was akin to that of her novels: no one behaved
shockingly, yet the passions that stirred within made her a master
of the ultimate suspense of human relationships–the life of the
heart.
關於作者：
Victoria Glendinning was born in the north of England and read
French and Spanish at Oxford. Her first book was A Suppressed
Cry, a family memoir about her Quaker great-aunt. She has
written biographies of Edith Sitwell which won the James Tait
Black Award and the Duff Cooper Prize, Vita Sackville-West
Whitbread Prize for Biography, Rebecca West, Anthony Trollope
Whitbread Prize for Biography, Jonathan Swift, and Leonard Woolf.
She co-edited Mothers and Sons with her son Matthew
Glendinning, and has published three novels, The
Grown-Ups, Electricity, and Flight.
She reviews books for national newspapers and journals, has been a
judge of the W. H. Smith Prize and other literary awards, and chair
of the judges of the Booker Prize. From 2000-03 she was president
of English PEN. She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College,
Oxford, and was awarded a CBE in 1998.
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