Apr. 12th, 2007

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The Heat of the Day
by Elizabeth Bowen

This book started off kind of dull but soon became very interesting. Set in 1940s London, the novel concerns Stella Rodney, who is told by a mysterious man named Harrison that her lover Robert is a selling information to the Germans and thus a traitor to England. Bowen expertly and insightfully traces how Stella's evolving reaction to this information affects both her realtionship with Robert and the path of her life. As with The Last September, one of Bowen's greatest strenghts is the way she evokes the atmosphere of a specific time and place. This time however it is wartime London's combination of tension and mundanity.

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