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Huh? Top 100? Portia is an orphaned 16 year old girl sent to live with her half-brother
and his wife. They aren't very nice to Portia. She "falls in
love" with a friend of her brother's wife. He rejects her.
It turns out the wife has been reading Portia's diary. Portia throws
herself at another friend of the family. He too
Whoopty flippin' doo... This is supposed to be a poignant portrait of a young girl coming of age; read To Kill a Mockingbird instead. (Reviewed:) Grade: (D) Tweet Websites:-WIKIPEDIA: Elizabeth Bowen -ESSAY: The Shadowy Third: The adulterous affair that inspired Elizabeth Bowen: A trove of letters reveals a literary love triangle with the Anglo-Irish author at its heart (Rupert Christiansen, March 06 2021, Irish Times) -ESSAY: Intelligence if Anything is a Handicap: How Elizabeth Bowen Reimagined Cognitive Difference (Naomi Michalowicz, Synapsis) - Book-related and General Links: -REVIEW: of The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen The Power of the Unstated (Patricia Craig, NY Review of Books) |
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