The Death of the Heart
The Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals herself as a masterful novelist who combines a sense of humor with a devastating gift for divining human motivations.\ In this piercing story of innocence betrayed set in the thirties, the orphaned Portia is stranded in the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's...
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Set after WW I, Death of the Heart captures the demise of an era and the fading of the manners and mores of the British upper class. The character's in Elizabeth Bowen's classic novel are suffering the cultural malaise cause by the two world wars, in which the British upper-class is shown as being too preoccupied to give any sort of distinct direction to the young. Death of the Heart explores the world of youthful innocence colliding with the cynical world of unsympathetic adult
