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The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
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The House in Paris

by Elizabeth Bowen

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I really enjoyed the first half of the novel, where the focus is on the two children, Henrietta and Leopold, and their precocious and tentative interactions with each other. However, I sort of lost interest when the narrative moved back in time to tell the story of Leopold's genetic background, mostly because Leopold is so much more interesting and amusing than his parents, whose mundane love affair is the subject of the second half of the book. The novel would have been more interesting, entertaining, and original if it had kept its focus on the children. ( )
wunderkind | Nov 5, 2007 | 1 vote
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0385721250, Paperback)

When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers’ well-appointed house in Paris, she is prepared to spend her day between trains looked after by an old friend of her grandmother’s. Henrietta longs to see a few sights in the foreign city; little does she know what fascinating secrets the Fisher house itself contains.
For Henrietta finds that her visit coincides with that of Leopold, an intense child who has come to Paris to be introduced to the mother he has never known. In the course of a single day, the relations between Leopold, Henrietta’s agitated hostess Naomi Fisher, Leopold’s mysterious mother, his dead father, and the dying matriarch in bed upstairs, come to light slowly and tantalizingly. And when Henrietta leaves the house that evening, it is in possession of the kind of grave knowledge usually reserved only for adults. One of Elizabeth Bowen’s most artful and psychologically acute novels, The House in Paris is a timeless masterpiece of nuance and atmosphere, and represents the very best of Bowen’s celebrated oeuvre.

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