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Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor (2012, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

ISBN-101590174968

ISBN-139781590174968

eBay Product ID (ePID)1332299

Product Key Features

Book TitleGame of Hide and Seek

Number of Pages328 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2012

TopicRomance / Historical / 20th Century, Romance / Historical / General, Family Life, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorElizabeth Taylor

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight12.2 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2011-030977

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Taylor has the genius of making her characters understood, sometimes with an almost frightening clarity, perhaps because she is compassionate as well as relentless in her delineation of them." -- The New York Times "Funny, savage and full of loneliness and suppressed emotion." --Rachel Cooke, The Observer "It is time that justice was done to Elizabeth Taylor. . . . All her writings could be described as coming into the category of comedy. Comedy is the best vehicle for truths that are too fierce to be borne." --Anita Brookner "Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognized as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader, I have found huge pleasure in returning to Taylor's novels and short stories many times over. As a writer I've returned to her too--in awe of her achievements, and trying to work out how she does it." --Sarah Waters, "Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader, I have found huge pleasure in returning to Taylor's novels and short stories many times over. As a writer I've returned to her too in awe of her achievements, and trying to work out how she does it." -Sarah Waters "Presently reading Elizabeth Taylor 's (no, not that one) A Game of Hide And Seek. She's a magnificent and-for the idiotic reason that she's very middle-class-underrated mid-20th-century writer, the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike." -David Baddiel, The Independent (London) "It has almost become a cliché to describe Elizabeth Taylor as a sadly neglected writer, but this reissue of A Game of Hide and Seek should certainly win her some new fans . . . there is a great deal of pleasure to be had in Taylor's pitch-perfect prose." -Alex Peake-Tomkinson Daily Telegraph (London) "This is a deliberately quiet novel and a very impressive one, too." -Chris Ross, Guardian (London) "This sublime novel, published in 1951, is a top-quality, literary Friends Reunited fantasy. . . . Newcomers to Taylor are in for a marvelous treat." -Val Hennessy, Daily Mail (London) "One of our best women novelists. . . . She shared her name with a megastar, wrote some wonderful short stories and quite marvellous novels- A Game of Hide and Seek , Angel . . ." -Gill Hornby, Daily Telegraph (London) "Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience" -Elizabeth Bowen "The unsung heroine of British 20th-century fiction. Elizabeth Taylor wrote 12 novels, and each displays her exquisitely light touch, her firt for discreet irony and her skill at revealing the emotional depths behind even the meekest exterior. She is at her very best here, a novel in which love is never declared, but is meticulously evoked. No writer has described the English middle classes with more gently devastating accuracy." -Rebecca Abrams, Spectator (London) "One of the most underrated novelists of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Taylor writes with a wonderful precision and grace. Her world is totally absorbing." -Antonia Fraser "Always intelligent, often subversive and never dull, Elizabeth Taylor is the thinking person's dangerous housewife. Her sophisticated prose combines elegance, icy wit and freshness in a stimulating cocktaila-the perfect toast to the quiet horror of domestic life." -Valerie Martin "A wonderful novelist" -Jilly Cooper "Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowena-soul-sisters all.' -Anne Tyler "How deeply I envy any reader coming to her for the first time!" -Elizabeth Jane Howard "Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning point in one's own experience." -Elizabeth Bowen "I envy those readers who are coming to her work for the first time. Theirs will be an unexpected pleasure, and they will if they read her as she wanted to be read-learn much that will surprise them." -Paul Bailey "Sophisticated, sensitive and brilliantly amusing, with a kind of stripped, piercing feminine wit." -Rosamond Lehmann "Taylor is one of the hidden treasures of the English novel." -Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph (London) "One of my all-time favorite authors." -Sarah Waters, Sunday Times (London), "Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader, I have found huge pleasure in returning to Taylor's novels and short stories many times over. As a writer I've returned to her too in awe of her achievements, and trying to work out how she does it." -Sarah Waters "Presently reading Elizabeth Taylor 's (no, not that one) A Game of Hide And Seek. She's a magnificent and-for the idiotic reason that she's very middle-class-underrated mid-20th-century writer, the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike." -David Baddiel, The Independent (London) "It has almost become a clich to describe Elizabeth Taylor as a sadly neglected writer, but this reissue of A Game of Hide and Seek should certainly win her some new fans . . . there is a great deal of pleasure to be had in Taylor's pitch-perfect prose." -Alex Peake-Tomkinson Daily Telegraph (London) "This is a deliberately quiet novel and a very impressive one, too." -Chris Ross, Guardian (London) "This sublime novel, published in 1951, is a top-quality, literary Friends Reunited fantasy. . . . Newcomers to Taylor are in for a marvelous treat." -Val Hennessy, Daily Mail (London) "One of our best women novelists. . . . She shared her name with a megastar, wrote some wonderful short stories and quite marvellous novels- A Game of Hide and Seek , Angel . . ." -Gill Hornby, Daily Telegraph (London) "Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience" -Elizabeth Bowen "The unsung heroine of British 20th-century fiction. Elizabeth Taylor wrote 12 novels, and each displays her exquisitely light touch, her firt for discreet irony and her skill at revealing the emotional depths behind even the meekest exterior. She is at her very best here, a novel in which love is never declared, but is meticulously evoked. No writer has described the English middle classes with more gently devastating accuracy." -Rebecca Abrams, Spectator (London) "One of the most underrated novelists of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Taylor writes with a wonderful precision and grace. Her world is totally absorbing." -Antonia Fraser "Always intelligent, often subversive and never dull, Elizabeth Taylor is the thinking person's dangerous housewife. Her sophisticated prose combines elegance, icy wit and freshness in a stimulating cocktaila-the perfect toast to the quiet horror of domestic life." -Valerie Martin "A wonderful novelist" -Jilly Cooper "Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowena-soul-sisters all.' -Anne Tyler "How deeply I envy any reader coming to her for the first time!" -Elizabeth Jane Howard "Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning point in one's own experience." -Elizabeth Bowen "I envy those readers who are coming to her work for the first time. Theirs will be an unexpected pleasure, and they will if they read her as she wanted to be read-learn much that will surprise them." -Paul Bailey "Sophisticated, sensitive and brilliantly amusing, with a kind of stripped, piercing feminine wit." -Rosamond Lehmann "Taylor is one of the hidden treasures of the English novel." -Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph (London) "One of my all-time favorite authors." -Sarah Waters, Sunday Times (London), "Taylor has the genius of making her characters understood, sometimes with an almost frightening clarity, perhaps because she is compassionate as well as relentless in her delineation of them." - The New York Times "Funny, savage and full of loneliness and suppressed emotion." -Rachel Cooke, The Observer "It is time that justice was done to Elizabeth Taylor. . . . All her writings could be described as coming into the category of comedy. Comedy is the best vehicle for truths that are too fierce to be borne." -Anita Brookner "Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognized as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader, I have found huge pleasure in returning to Taylor's novels and short stories many times over. As a writer I've returned to her too-in awe of her achievements, and trying to work out how she does it." -Sarah Waters

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SynopsisHarriet 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., A decade-spanning love story from an author who is "the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike" ( The Independent ) Haunted by unspoken tensions and stifled ardor, two lovers navigate shifting expectations and societal changes in inter-war England. The mid-twentieth century British novelist Elizabeth Taylor numbered among her admirers Elizabeth Bowen, Ivy Compton-Burnett, and Kingsley Amis. She also regularly published stories in The New Yorker for close to two decades. For all that, her work, as steely as it is delicate, remains the secret of a small number of intensely devoted readers. The publication of her finest novel, A Game of Hide and Seek, long unavailable in the United States, should help to change that. This is an unabashed love story, capturing all the uncertainty and inevitability and deceptiveness of true love, tracking the shifting currents of emotional life, and never yielding to melodrama. Set in Britain between the wars--a time of transition between old convention and new ways--the book's heroine is Harriet, the only child of a suffragette, whom we meet as a shy and domestic and not especially smart or pretty girl. At eighteen she falls in love with Vesey, but after Vesey must go away, she marries another man, Charles, and bears a child. Then Vesey returns. Love is at the center of the book, but so too is Taylor's extraordinary knack for depicting characters. The minor figures in the book--from Harriet's mother's friend Caroline, with her progressive politics, to Charles, his coworkers, and his mother, to Betsy with her schoolgirl crush on her Greek teacher--are as memorable as the passion and heartache of Harriet and Vesey., Plagued by unspoken tensions and stifled ardor, two lovers navigate shifting expectations and societal changes in inter-war England--a decade-spanning love story from an author who is "the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike" ( The Independent ) The mid-twentieth century British novelist Elizabeth Taylor numbered among her admirers Elizabeth Bowen, Ivy Compton-Burnett, and Kingsley Amis. She also regularly published stories in The New Yorker for close to two decades. For all that, her work, as steely as it is delicate, remains the secret of a small number of intensely devoted readers. The publication of her finest novel, A Game of Hide and Seek, long unavailable in the United States, should help to change that. This is an unabashed love story, capturing all the uncertainty and inevitability and deceptiveness of true love, tracking the shifting currents of emotional life, and never yielding to melodrama. Set in Britain between the wars--a time of transition between old convention and new ways--the book's heroine is Harriet, the only child of a suffragette, whom we meet as a shy and domestic and not especially smart or pretty girl. At eighteen she falls in love with Vesey, but after Vesey must go away, she marries another man, Charles, and bears a child. Then Vesey returns. Love is at the center of the book, but so too is Taylor's extraordinary knack for depicting characters. The minor figures in the book--from Harriet's mother's friend Caroline, with her progressive politics, to Charles, his coworkers, and his mother, to Betsy with her schoolgirl crush on her Greek teacher--are as memorable as the passion and heartache of Harriet and Vesey.

LC Classification NumberPR6039.A928G36 2011