The Last September
by Elizabeth Bowen | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0385720149 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0385720149 Global Overview for this book
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Cordelia-anne
of Decatur, Georgia USA on 9/12/2016
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
Cordelia-anne of Decatur, Georgia USA on 9/12/2016 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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Amazon Editorial Review
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)
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)
It is the last day of September. I'd given myself this September as a timeline for getting this book read. Sadly, I could not fit it in. It deserves a new reader.
Journal Entry 3 by Cordelia-anne at Mary Scott Nature Park Little Free Library Charter 51009 in Atlanta, Georgia USA on Friday, September 30, 2022
Cordelia-anne at Mary Scott Nature Park Little Free Library Charter 51009 in Atlanta, Georgia USA on Friday, September 30, 2022
Released 1 yr ago (10/1/2022 UTC) at Mary Scott Nature Park Little Free Library Charter 51009 in Atlanta, Georgia USA
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Journal Entry 4 by Cordelia-anne at Little Free Library Charter 20502 in Atlanta, Georgia USA on Sunday, October 16, 2022
Cordelia-anne at Little Free Library Charter 20502 in Atlanta, Georgia USA on Sunday, October 16, 2022
Released 1 yr ago (10/17/2022 UTC) at Little Free Library Charter 20502 in Atlanta, Georgia USA
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I found this book was languishing in the Mary Scott Nature Park Little Free Library and decided to take it to Starfire. This book is a gift from BookCrossing, a random community of book lovers. If you'd like to join the BookCrossing story of this book, please make a journal entry at our site with the BCID (bookcrossing ID) on the bookplate. BookCrossing is free to join and confidential. You don't have to join to comment. Add your experience to this book.
This book traveled from where I left it on Starfire Drive about a year ago. I hope it is having good BookCrossing adventures.
