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A review by elizabethalley
A View Of The Harbour: A Virago Modern Classic by Sarah Waters, Elizabeth Taylor
5.0
What a great book! My favorite of the five (of 12) of her novels that I've read so far.
It seems like such a simple thing, just observations of people living in a seaside town, a little gossipy, but then wow! a profound statement and blam! a zinger about how men and women relate to each other, and then all of these precise little observations about people and relationships. My favorite thing is how brutal she is with the writer character, clearly describing her annoyance with herself and her chosen profession. (But also her love of and appreciation for the act of writing.)
I highly recommend her books - I've read The Sleeping Beauty, In a Summer Season, At Mrs. Lippincote's (another favorite), and Blaming. I'm very excited that I still have seven more to read.
It seems like such a simple thing, just observations of people living in a seaside town, a little gossipy, but then wow! a profound statement and blam! a zinger about how men and women relate to each other, and then all of these precise little observations about people and relationships. My favorite thing is how brutal she is with the writer character, clearly describing her annoyance with herself and her chosen profession. (But also her love of and appreciation for the act of writing.)
I highly recommend her books - I've read The Sleeping Beauty, In a Summer Season, At Mrs. Lippincote's (another favorite), and Blaming. I'm very excited that I still have seven more to read.