The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history. In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and their friends maintain a skeptical attitude toward the events going on around them, but behind the facade of tennis parties and army camp dances, all know that the end is approaching the end of British rule in the south of Ireland and ...
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The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history. In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and their friends maintain a skeptical attitude toward the events going on around them, but behind the facade of tennis parties and army camp dances, all know that the end is approaching the end of British rule in the south of Ireland and the demise of a way of life that had survived for centuries. Their niece, Lois Farquar, attempts to live her own life and gain her own freedoms from the very class that her elders are vainly defending. The Last September depicts the tensions between love and the longing for freedom, between tradition and the terrifying prospect of independence, both political and spiritual. "Brilliant.... A successful combination of social comedy and private tragedy." The Times Literary Supplement (London)"
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Good. Some outer edges have minor scuffs. Cover has light scratches and marks. Book content is in very good readable condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding.
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Good. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Trade Paperback in Good Condition. A novel of social comedy and personal tragedy set during the time of the Irish troubles of the 1920s. Clean and unmarked with wear to edges of cover, lower corner with light crease. Bottom corner of cover flares up. Rear cover is spotted. 206 pp. 1987, Penguin Modern Classics, USA.
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