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Old 06-11-2016   #61
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I have, as far as I am aware, now read all of her short fiction. I was delighted to discover the book The Bazaar and Other Stories when I was done with my allegedly 'complete' volume of her short tales.

I haven't yet tackled her novels. The Heat of the Day shall be my first. I anticipate more ghostly melancholic descriptions of ruinous London.
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where others see tweets I just see a blank (not figuratively, truly, literally)

???

“after that she continued to scream freely”
“accelerating without mercy”
“the roses looked all the odder”
“Frightened?” “of her”
‘She’s an absolute child”


yet this eloquent silence still inspires my imagination to many a re-read
"My imagination functions better if don't have to deal with people" - Patricia Highsmith
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A portrait of Elizabeth Bowen that I saw for the first time yesterday. I find this quite amazing, as I have never seen her with long hair. And also the finely rendered hands together with her eyes create a combined gesture that seems to speak a message to us across time!




I recently reviewed her story THE DEMON LOVER: HERE….
“You have no time to run from a face you do not expect.” — Elizabeth Bowen
All of this couched in Bowen’s immaculately fractured style of unexpected words and rich covert threat. Tempting the reader to become so involved that words are added that she did not intend but somehow simply knew, if not expected, would be delivered one day. Today.

My long-term website for Elizabeth Bowen: https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/
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My review of LOVE by Elizabeth Bowen…

For me, the ultimate Aickman story!


LOVE by Elizabeth Bowen | The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews
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My endless task till I die…

The Stories of Elizabeth Bowen | The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews
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“Eternity is inside us – it’s a secret that we must never, never try to betray. Look where just time has brought me; look at where it’s left me.”
— Elizabeth Bowen
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What would people suggest as the best intro to Bowen that isn't the 800 page Collected Stories?
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What would people suggest as the best intro to Bowen that isn't the 800 page Collected Stories?
I think the best intro other than her stories, is her novel HEAT OF THE DAY.

Meanwhile,

#ElizabethBowen and #RobertAickman, as contemporaries in a seemingly similar social world, were *arguably* great mutual literary spirit influences as synergy upon and from each other, but nobody knew this till now!?…

My review of Bowen’s GREEN HOLLY as *the* great ghost story! — HERE

My review of a story entitled LOVE by Elizabeth Bowen as another Aickman-infused example among many: The Stories of Elizabeth Bowen | The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews

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Today’s review of #ElizabethBowen
THE DISINHERITED

Let’s hope I am successful in conveying why you should read this masterpiece of English literature, with #RobertAickman vibes and modernist trends.

and a chandelier that hung in a bag like a cheese
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