The Heat Of The Day
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
London, 1942: bombs fall nightly, and in the smouldering ruins of a city at war, a woman named Stella Rodney finds her world upended when a shadowy stranger informs her that her lover, Robert Kelway, is passing information to the enemy. The Heat of the Day is Elizabeth Bowen's masterwork of wartime suspense and psychological acuity — a novel that interrogates loyalty, desire, and identity against the backdrop of the Blitz, where the boundaries between survival and complicity blur with devastating intimacy. Bowen writes with a prose style of extraordinary compression and sensory intensity, capturing the heightened emotional register of a society simultaneously numbed and electrified by catastrophe. The novel stands as one of the defining works of twentieth-century British fiction, placing it firmly alongside the great modernist novels of consciousness, yet grounding its philosophical weight in the very specific anxieties of a nation at war. Rich in moral ambiguity and taut with unresolved tension, it leaves the reader to wrestle with the question that haunts every page: in a world being unmade, what — and who — is truly worth saving?
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Format: Hardback
Published: 1950, RS
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
London, 1942: bombs fall nightly, and in the smouldering ruins of a city at war, a woman named Stella Rodney finds her world upended when a shadowy stranger informs her that her lover, Robert Kelway, is passing information to the enemy. The Heat of the Day is Elizabeth Bowen's masterwork of wartime suspense and psychological acuity — a novel that interrogates loyalty, desire, and identity against the backdrop of the Blitz, where the boundaries between survival and complicity blur with devastating intimacy. Bowen writes with a prose style of extraordinary compression and sensory intensity, capturing the heightened emotional register of a society simultaneously numbed and electrified by catastrophe. The novel stands as one of the defining works of twentieth-century British fiction, placing it firmly alongside the great modernist novels of consciousness, yet grounding its philosophical weight in the very specific anxieties of a nation at war. Rich in moral ambiguity and taut with unresolved tension, it leaves the reader to wrestle with the question that haunts every page: in a world being unmade, what — and who — is truly worth saving?