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:
Condition: Good — showing age-appropriate wear. Jacket: Worn/faded, with chipping and wear on edges and corners; teal/blue dust jacket intact but showing significant wear. Page Condition: Yellowed — pages have tanned with age, consistent with a 1949 printing. Markings: No visible markings noted. Binding: Appears intact and solid. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
Set against the tense, blackout-shrouded backdrop of wartime London, The Heat of the Day is a masterwork of psychological suspense and literary fiction. Elizabeth Bowen chronicles the affair between Stella Rodney, a widow working in British intelligence, and Robert Kelway, a man accused of passing secrets to the enemy by the shadowy and unsettling Harrison, who offers Stella a sinister bargain. The novel captures the moral ambiguity and emotional dislocation of the Blitz era with remarkable precision, rendering the psychological toll of war on personal identity and intimate relationships. Bowen writes with a dense, poetic intensity that immerses the reader in the fragmented consciousness of her characters, making this one of the finest British novels of the twentieth century.
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Format: Hardback
Published: 1949, Alfred A. Knopf
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good — showing age-appropriate wear. Jacket: Worn/faded, with chipping and wear on edges and corners; teal/blue dust jacket intact but showing significant wear. Page Condition: Yellowed — pages have tanned with age, consistent with a 1949 printing. Markings: No visible markings noted. Binding: Appears intact and solid. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
Set against the tense, blackout-shrouded backdrop of wartime London, The Heat of the Day is a masterwork of psychological suspense and literary fiction. Elizabeth Bowen chronicles the affair between Stella Rodney, a widow working in British intelligence, and Robert Kelway, a man accused of passing secrets to the enemy by the shadowy and unsettling Harrison, who offers Stella a sinister bargain. The novel captures the moral ambiguity and emotional dislocation of the Blitz era with remarkable precision, rendering the psychological toll of war on personal identity and intimate relationships. Bowen writes with a dense, poetic intensity that immerses the reader in the fragmented consciousness of her characters, making this one of the finest British novels of the twentieth century.