{"product_id":"the-hotel","title":"The Hotel","description":"\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Bowens first novel brilliantly captures the inflammatory mixture of passion and repression among wellheeled British tourists on the Italian Riviera. Their luxurious seaside hotel seems a closed and comfortable world, marked by dramas no more momentous than tennis games, picnics, and idle gossip. But for the young women of the 1920s, facing a dearth of young men after the first World War, it is a battleground for the clash of tradition and modernity. As rebellious young Sydney Warren tests the boundaries of her incomplete freedomand becomes obsessed with a clever and charming older womanshe increasingly bewilders her suitors, her handlers, and herself. With the psychological precision and command of atmosphere that marks Bowens most famous novels, The Hotel depicts a collection of privileged men and women in determined denial of a world that is falling apart around them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Bowen, Elizabeth \/ paperback","offer_id":47841224392949,"sku":"SONG0593080653","price":16.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/A18oHN4_ADL.jpg?v=1773754341","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/the-hotel","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}