The Long View
Picador Classic
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
8 March 2016
Summary
With an introduction by Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall.
Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard’s uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one woman. Observant and heartbreaking, written with exhilarating wit, it is a gut-wrenching account of the birth and death of a relationship – as extraordinary as it is timeless.
One of his secret pleasures was the loading of social dice against himself. He did not seem for one moment to co…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781447272243 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1447272242 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Jane Howard |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 8 March 2016 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Picador Classic |
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Critics Review
A beautifully written and richly perceptive novel. Miss Howard has a gift for epigrammatic dialogue; she cuts to the heart of motive or relationship with delicate precision.
Beautifully written and richly perceptive * Daily Telegraph *
When I read The Long View … I realized I would never write anything of such subtlety and penetration: there was no point in even hoping to write a novel if this was the standard of excellence – Andrew Brown * Guardian *
What a beautiful, subtle, endlessly insightful writer. What compassion, what mesmerising detail, what godlike lightness of touch – Chris Cleave * Guardian *
Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her – Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
About The Author
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fourteen highly acclaimed novels. The Cazalet Chronicles - The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, Casting Off and All Change - have become modern classics and have been adapted for a major BBC television series and most recently for BBC Radio 4. In 2002 Macmillan published Elizabeth Jane Howard’s autobiography, Slipstream. In that same year she was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. She died in January 2014 at the age of ninety.
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