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Hotel (Paperback)

by Elizabeth Bowen (Author)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Inscrutable, Aug 7 2002
By J. Rosenberg "reggieroy" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 20th Century Hotel (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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Charming and very much of its period, May 4 1999
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This review is from: 20th Century Hotel (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.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good introductory Bowen novel, Dec 23 1998
This review is from: 20th Century Hotel (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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1.0 out of 5 stars awkward puzzling book
I am amazed this book is still in print. Who wants to read about a group of English people with nothing to do, so devoid of content (the people) that when alone in a room, they... Read more
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