A World Of Love
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In the sun-scorched landscape of rural Ireland, a household is haunted — not by ghosts, but by the lingering, suffocating presence of a dead man's love. A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen chronicles the story of young Jane, who discovers a cache of old love letters in the attic of a decaying Anglo-Irish estate, setting in motion a quiet yet devastating unravelling of the family's buried secrets and long-suppressed desires. The novel unfolds across a single shimmering summer, as the past refuses to remain buried and the living must contend with passions that were never truly extinguished. Bowen writes with a precision and lyricism that is wholly her own — her prose moves like light through antique glass, refracting the ordinary into something luminous and unsettling. Widely regarded as one of the masterworks of mid-twentieth-century British fiction, A World of Love illustrates Bowen's signature preoccupation with time, memory, and the invisible architecture of human longing. For readers who have yet to encounter the full force of her singular vision, this novel presents an irresistible, quietly devastating question: how long can the past claim the living?
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Format: Hardback
Published: 1957, Readers Union / Jonathan Cape
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In the sun-scorched landscape of rural Ireland, a household is haunted — not by ghosts, but by the lingering, suffocating presence of a dead man's love. A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen chronicles the story of young Jane, who discovers a cache of old love letters in the attic of a decaying Anglo-Irish estate, setting in motion a quiet yet devastating unravelling of the family's buried secrets and long-suppressed desires. The novel unfolds across a single shimmering summer, as the past refuses to remain buried and the living must contend with passions that were never truly extinguished. Bowen writes with a precision and lyricism that is wholly her own — her prose moves like light through antique glass, refracting the ordinary into something luminous and unsettling. Widely regarded as one of the masterworks of mid-twentieth-century British fiction, A World of Love illustrates Bowen's signature preoccupation with time, memory, and the invisible architecture of human longing. For readers who have yet to encounter the full force of her singular vision, this novel presents an irresistible, quietly devastating question: how long can the past claim the living?