Friends and Relations
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1943.
Two sisters, two weddings, just months apart. These marriages produce a tangle of friends, relations and lovers that starts to unravel ten years later, during one intense week. Two of Bowen’s most memorable characters are in attendance: Lady Elfrida, a creature of privilege, and Theodora Thirdman, a gawky teenager with zero self-awareness. The sunset of prosperity is upon this complacent, moneyed class, but Bowen’s precise and beautiful prose pins real pain and comedy upon its inhabitants.
Condition grading: Very Good. Crease down left side of front cover. Very light foxing to both covers. Minor creasing to spine. Usual page tanning for age. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1943.
Two sisters, two weddings, just months apart. These marriages produce a tangle of friends, relations and lovers that starts to unravel ten years later, during one intense week. Two of Bowen’s most memorable characters are in attendance: Lady Elfrida, a creature of privilege, and Theodora Thirdman, a gawky teenager with zero self-awareness. The sunset of prosperity is upon this complacent, moneyed class, but Bowen’s precise and beautiful prose pins real pain and comedy upon its inhabitants.
Condition grading: Very Good. Crease down left side of front cover. Very light foxing to both covers. Minor creasing to spine. Usual page tanning for age. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1943.
Two sisters, two weddings, just months apart. These marriages produce a tangle of friends, relations and lovers that starts to unravel ten years later, during one intense week. Two of Bowen’s most memorable characters are in attendance: Lady Elfrida, a creature of privilege, and Theodora Thirdman, a gawky teenager with zero self-awareness. The sunset of prosperity is upon this complacent, moneyed class, but Bowen’s precise and beautiful prose pins real pain and comedy upon its inhabitants.
Condition grading: Very Good. Crease down left side of front cover. Very light foxing to both covers. Minor creasing to spine. Usual page tanning for age. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
