Description
| Product ID: | 9781447272243 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Picador Classic |
| Title: | The Long View |
| Authors: | Author: Elizabeth Jane Howard |
| Page Count: | 480 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, this is a profound, heartbreaking portrait of a marriage at its end. <p><b>With an introduction by Hilary Mantel, author of <i>Wolf Hall</i>.<br><br>Originally published in 1956, <i>The Long View</i> is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one woman. Written with exhilarating wit, it is a gut-wrenching account of the birth and death of a relationship.</b><br><br>In 1950s London, Antonia Fleming faces the prospect of a life lived alone. Her children are now adults; her husband Conrad, a domineering and emotionally complex man, is now a stranger. <br><br>As Antonia looks towards her future, the novel steadily moves backwards in time. Tracing Antonia's relationship with Conrad, she comes to its beginning in the 1920s – through years of mistake and motherhood, dreams and war.<br><br><i>One of his secret pleasures was the loading of social dice against himself. He did not seem for one moment to consider the efforts made by kind or sensitive people to even things up: or if such notions ever occurred to him, he would have observed them with detached amusement, and reloaded more dice.</i><br><b> <br>Observant and heartbreaking, <i>The Long View</i> is as extraordinary as it is timeless.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-02-25 |