About this title: Thomas and Anna Quayne have a long, childless, emotionally sterile marriage. When Thomas's teenage half-sister, Portia, comes to stay with them, she disrupts everything by falling in love with an irresponsible young man who rejects her. Portia also discovers that Anna has been reading her diary, in which Portia exposes the foibles of the adults in ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780140183009ISBN:0140183000
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Some cover-wear, faint creasing, notes, under-lining. Spine NOT creased. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Perfect Bound Paper
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1955
Description: Good to Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. Small Trade Paperback. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Mild wear and light creasing to wrap corners. Old price on FEP. Binding tight, pages clean although yellowing. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1991-07-24
ISBN-13:9780140183009ISBN:0140183000
Description: Good. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean, bright, and unmarked. Faint creases to covers/spine. Has some underlining. Careful packaging and fast shipping. read more
Description: Good. Paperback in good condition. There is very little edge rubbing, a few very light creases, a name and date inside, pages are tanning, still clean, [Satisfaction Guaranteed! ]. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York
Date Published: 1961
Description: Fourth PB Printing of a 1938 Copyright. Moderate degree of wear and soil, a bit darkened along spine, Very Good Condition, in wraps. Mass-market sized PB, "...a witty, lucid, and beautiful psychological novel. " (Clifton Fadiman) read more
"Like chewing nails. The novels of manners, sans Austen, aren't holding up so well. If I'd read this without the cover I'd have sworn that Edith Wharton wrote it. My bookclub was divided. But I wish I'd spent my time elsewhere. This book just didn't make me care."
"I came across Elizabeth Bowen through the writings of William Maxwell, who was a huge fan. This book makes clear his reason. One of the great writers of the tewntieth century."
"Lovely, lovely story of a young girl finding her way in the world. I enjoyed this one more than I thought I would. I wish I would have met Portia when I was 16."
"I bought a (now apparently out-of-print) copy of this book at the Newberry's annual book sale last summer upon Meghan Lee's recommendation, and for some reason I just now got to it. Because it was an old copy, it had no plot synopsis on the back; thus, I had no idea what to expect, which can sometimes lead to a pleasant surprise. That was certainly true in this case. Of course, it's also hard to say what this book is about, other than, of course, the death of the heart. It's one of those you just have to read for yourself."
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