![]() I have a whole bunch of her novels, travel books, memoirs and literary criticism I’ve assigned her The Heat of the Day which conveys supremely what it is like to live in a city bombed daily and in daily anxiety for your life, watching daily people killed (and shown the film with Michael Gambon, Michael Yorke and Patricia Hodge). ![]() ![]() I re-watched the marvelous Huston film, The Dead, after she talked of Joyce’s Dubliners, and now I’ve returned to a favorite novelist, Elizabeth Bowen. (See Irish Authors!) I’ve long loved hyphenated-lit (Anglo-Indian, French-Canadian, Anglo-African) and two favorites are Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Scots (and vice-versa). My daughter, Izzy, is taking a course in Irish Literature this term and I find myself enjoying the books - and connected films - with her. ![]() David Tennant as Gerald Colthurst (Lesworth in Bowen’s book) ![]()
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