| A Game of Hide and Seek Contributor(s): Taylor, Elizabeth (Author), Crain, Caleb (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590174968 ISBN-13: 9781590174968 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Romance - Historical - 20th Century - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2011030977 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.07" W x 7.97" (0.93 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Harriet and Vesey meet when they are teenagers, and their love is as intense and instantaneous as it is innocent. But they are young. All life still lies ahead. Vesey heads off hopefully to pursue a career as an actor. Harriet marries and has a child, becoming a settled member of suburban society. And then Vesey returns, the worse for wear, and with him the love whose memory they have both sentimentally cherished, and even after so much has happened it cannot be denied. But things are not at all as they used to be. Love, it seems, is hardly designed to survive life. One of the finest twentieth-century English novelists, Elizabeth Taylor, like her contemporaries Graham Greene, Richard Yates, and Michelangelo Antonioni, was a connoisseur of the modern world's forsaken zones. Her characters are real, people caught out by their own desires and decisions, and they demand our attention. The be-stilled suburban backwaters she sets out to explore shimmer in her books with the punishing clarity of a desert mirage. |