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Acknowledged as Rebecca West's fictional masterpiece, The Fountain Overflows introduces the crisis-ridden Aubrey family. This Real Night continues their remarkable story. It is the early 1900s. With the disappearance of Piers, her feckless and gambling husband, and the sale of some valuable paintings, Clare Aubrey has a firmer grip on the purse strings. Rose and Mary are at music college, struggling for artistic perfection, while the self-assured Cordelia has fallen into the role of art dealer's assistant. Richard Quin, beloved younger brother, is contemplating Oxford. The children's coming of age, with its gradual acceptance of love and loss, becomes all the more poignant as the events of the First World War gather pace...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0860686698
ISBN13:9780860686699
Release Date:January 1987
Publisher:Virago Press Ltd
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:7.7" x 0.9" x 5.0"
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A Worthy Sequel to the Fountain Overflows
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
"This Real Night" by Rebecca West is a worthy sequel to "The Fountain Overflows." It may not be the masterpiece of its predecessor, but I am glad that I read it and will definitely read the third volume, "Cousin Rosamond." Although I suppose it could stand on its own as a novel, it really is meant to be read as part of the trilogy. It has the same great literary style and penetration of the family and the society just before WWI. Some paragraphs about inconsequential matters, often food, are remarkable in the manner they reveal character, setting and even the history of the times. I strongly recommend "This Real Night."
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