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020			_a9781590178485
050	0	0	_aPR6039.A928 _bV54 2015
082	1		_aFIC TAY _2
100	1		_aTaylor, Elizabeth _d(1912 - 1975)
245	1	2	_aA view of the harbour _c/ Elizabeth Taylor ; introduction by Roxana Robinson.
260			_aNew York _b: New York Review Books _c, 2015, c1947
300			_a312 p. _c; 21 cm.
490	0		_aNew York Review Books Classics
520			_a"Are we to go on until we are old, with just these odd moments here and there and danger always so narrowly evaded? Love draining away our vitality, our hold on life, never adding anything to us." Blindness and betrayal are Elizabeth Taylor's great subjects, and in A View of the Harbour she turns her unsparing gaze on the emotional and sexual politics of a seedy seaside town that's been left behind by modernity. Tory, recently divorced, is having an affair with her neighbor Robert, a doctor, whose wife, Beth, is Tory's best friend. Beth notices nothing - an author of melodramatic novels, she is too busy with them to mind her house or its inhabitants - but her daughter Prudence knows what is up and is appalled. Gossip spreads in the little community, and Taylor's view widens to take in a range of characters from senile, snoopy Mrs. Bracey; to a young, widowed proprietor of the local waxworks, Lily Wilson; to the would-be artist Bertram.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aCommunity life _v--Fiction
650		4	_aAdultery -- _vFiction
651		4	_aEngland _v--Fiction
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