THE HOTEL : A Novel (Avon 48546)
by Elizabeth Bowen
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 038048546X
- ISBN 13
- 9780380485468
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Avon Books/Hearst Corp, 1980. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Near New w/faint margin discoloration. Softcover/Good w/edge & surface rubs, and creasing & lean to spine from faulty shelving. Text blocked dyed red. 1st novel of Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973). First published 1928; this is a reprint of 1980. It's the balmy days o the Italian Riveraf the 1920s when "God made the English, and the English made the world". Vintage, historical novel set in a hotel catering to prosperous Brits offering a closed world to the rich. A setting where overt social niceties are lavishly on display while love affairs kept unspoken --- to this, add comedies of a shared bathroom! Iintricacies & eccentricities of polite society presented with much wit & humor, as a new, contemporary set of social mores take sway.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019997
- Title
- THE HOTEL : A Novel (Avon 48546)
- Author
- Elizabeth Bowen
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 038048546X
- ISBN 13
- 9780380485468
- Publisher
- Avon Books/Hearst Corp
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Fiction/Novel/England/Social Classes/Family
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