A View of the Harbour

A View of the Harbour

Title: A View of the Harbour
Author: Elizabeth Taylor & Roxana Robinson
Release: 2015-06-02
Kind: ebook
Genre: Fiction & Literature, Books, Literary Fiction, Romance
Size: 1133639
A classic literary novel of gossip and romantic betrayal in a small English shore town, a “...nuanced study of the push and pull between domestic and artistic labor.” (The New Yorker)

“Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen—soul sisters all.” —Anne Tyler

Blindness and betrayal are Elizabeth Taylor’s great subjects, and in A View of the Harbour she turns her unsparing gaze on the emotional and sexual politics of a seedy seaside town that’s been left behind by modernity. Tory, recently divorced, depends more and more on the company of her neighbors Robert, a doctor, and Beth, a busy author of melodramatic novels. Prudence, Robert and Beth’s daughter, disapproves of the intimacy that has grown between her parents and Tory and the gossip it has awakened in their little community.

As the novel proceeds, Taylor’s view widens to take in a range of characters from bawdy, nosey Mrs. Bracey; to a widowed young proprietor of the local waxworks, Lily Wilson; to the would-be artist Bertram—while the book as a whole offers a beautifully observed and written examination of the fictions around which we construct our lives and manage our losses.

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