- Hardcover: 294 pages
- Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group (June 1928)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0837146852
- ISBN-13: 978-0837146850
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Inscrutable,
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This review is from: 20th Century Hotel (Mass Market Paperback)
I have read D.H. Lawrence, Henry James and E.M. Forster and understood their characters' motivations and personalities. This book had whole paragraphs that were so convuluted I could not follow them. I liked the descriptions of the peripheral characters and understood them. Overall the book was boring. "Room with a View" is far superior -- romantic, lovely and touching. This is my second Bowen and I don't plan to try another.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Charming and very much of its period,
By A Customer
This review is from: 20th Century Hotel (Mass Market Paperback)
The novel's storyline is fairly divided among several well-to-do British guests staying at a hotel on the Italian Riviera in the 1920s--mostly concerned with the subtle nuances of their emotional interactions with one another, the narrative eventually comes to settle on the neurotic Sydney (a young travelling companion to an invalid cousin) who has become overly attached to the beautiful and manipulative Mrs. Kerr.Though is far from Bowen's best, this is a wonderful read for anyone who has enjoyed the many novels of this period cocerning genteel Englishmen abroad--Forster's ROOM WITH A VIEW, von Arnim's THE ENCHANTED APRIL, and Woolf's THE VOYAGE OUT. The style is deceptive: you can get much more out of this on a second read than the first time round.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good introductory Bowen novel,
By jclifft@ix.netcom.com (Fullerton, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 20th Century Hotel (Mass Market Paperback)
Not the greatest novel in the world, but a good introduction if you would like to read Bowen. The lack of any real resolution to the plot is kind of disheartening and leaves the reader with a feeling of nothing being accomplished. Bowen writes about subtle emotions well, but throws out too many at the reader at once. The novel seems more of an intellectual excercise in form rather than a real literary accomplishment.
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