The publication of Encounters in1923 launched what would become a luminous forty-year writing career that spanned the advent of modernist literature, the Second World War, and the fraught years preceding the political turmoil of "the Troubles" in Ireland.
With astonishing literary adroitness and psychological acuity, she depicts the comedy of Br.
These gem-like Stories display Elizabeth Bowen\'s uncanny ability to represent un-belonging, dispossession, and the fragility of selfhood.
The publication of Encounters in1923 launched what would become a luminous forty-year writing career that spanned the advent of modernist literature, the Second World War, and the fraught years preceding the political turmoil of "the Troubles" in Ireland
