A View of the Harbour

Resumen del libro

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. Taylor's novel is a beautifully observed and written examination of the fictions around which we construct our lives and manage our losses.

Biografía del autor

p b Elizabeth Taylor /b (Reading, 1912 - Buckinghamshire, 1975) está considerada una de las escritoras británicas más relevantes del siglo xx. Trabajó como institutriz y bibliotecaria antes de casarse en 1936, y escribió su primer libro, i At Mrs Lippincote's /i (1945), durante la guerra, mientras su marido estaba en la Royal Air Force. Le siguieron otras once novelas, entre ellas i La señorita Dashwood /i (1946), i Una vista del puerto /i (1947), i El juego del amor /i (1951), i Ángel /i (1957), i En el verano /i (1961), i Un alma cándida /i (1964) y i Prohibido morir aquí /i (1971; Libros del Asteroide, 2025), finalista del premio Booker y considerada una de las cien mejores novelas de todos los tiempos según i The Guardian /i . Sus retratos inteligentes y entrañables de la vida de la clase media inglesa le granjearon popularidad. Sus aclamados cuentos pudieron leerse en i Vogue /i , i The New Yorker /i y i Harper's Bazaar /i , entre otras publicaciones.<br>