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20th Century Eva Trout Or The Changing Scenes (Paperback)

by Elizabeth Bowen (Author)
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Eva Trout has a capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble and for spreading trouble around her. This book is the author's last completed novel which was first published in 1968.


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"Bowen is magnificent when she writes about conspiracy, duplicity and ambiguity, and her achievement . . . is extremely impressive." –Margaret Drabble

"[Elizabeth Bowen] is what happened after Bloomsbury . . . the link that connects Virginia Woolf with Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark." –Victoria Glendinning

"It is as though Henry James has been superimposed upon Jane Austen." –Walter Allen, The Modern Novel --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Bowenesque, Dec 18 2001
EVA TROUT is perhaps the weakest of Bowen's novels and is certainly not the place to start your appreciation of her work. One of Bowen's characteristic devices is to describe not the terrible event, but the day after the terrible event, as people realize that they are nonetheless going to have to pick up the pieces and continue with their lives. EVA TROUT takes this device--which may strike you as a trick but is actually one of Bowen's great insights into life as it is lived--to the greatest extreme. Except for the ending, almost every major event in this book happens between the end of one chapter and the start of the next.

If you admire Bowen as I do, it's interesting to read her at her most Bowenesque. If you do not already admire Bowen, please don't start here--I've put off too many people by recommeding this book. Start instead with her short stories, some of which are widely anthologized.

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