The Death of the Heart

New York: Vintage Books, 1958.

Price: $20.00

Softcover. Second printing of the Vintage edition. Good with slight water damage in edgeworn wrappers.

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Item #279902 The Death of the Heart. Elizabeth BOWEN.

Elizabeth Bowen
birth name: Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
born: 6/7/1899
died: 2/22/1973
nationality: Great Britain

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British novelist and short-story writer who employed a finely wrought prose style in fiction frequently detailing uneasy and unfulfilling relationships among the upper middle class. The Death of the Heart (1938), the title of one of her most highly praised novels, might have served for most of them. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore