by Elizabeth Bowen · University of Chicago Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780226925240
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«The Hotel» is the novel by Elizabeth Bowen, published by University of Chicago Press in paperback (208 pages, in English).
A group of British tourists spends a season on the Italian Riviera of the 1920s, staying at a hotel frequented by wealthy guests where appearances and social conventions govern everything. Between humor and suspense, young Miss Sydney is drawn to the enigmatic Mrs. Kerr, and what goes unsaid explores human relationships with contained tension.
The Hotel is Elizabeth Bowen's first novel, originally published in 1927. This 2012 edition includes an introduction by Maud Ellmann.
Readers of literary fiction who enjoy psychological portraiture and period stories with underlying tension.
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer notable for her books about "the Big House" of Irish landed Protestants as well as her fiction about life in wartime London.
