Title : Little Girls - Elizabeth Bowen - book

Summary :

Three former classmates reunite after losing touch some fifty years earlier. They parted lightly the summer of their tenth birthday, vowing to achieve the moon and stars in the face of life's promise. Half a century later, everything points to their having "made it." Dicey, a widow and seemingly fulfilled mother, has become a strange, undignified old lady, haunted by the passage of time. Sheikie is a university professor. Mumbo runs a chain of stores. But, looking back and rediscovering the lack of complacency that is characteristic of children, they realize that they have indeed failed in life... Do we ever leave childhood? And if we think we will one day leave it, is it to go somewhere? Elizabeth Bowen, undoubtedly in her century the surest heir to Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf, raises these questions... and of course takes care not to answer them, because our certainties are the greatest enemies of our emotions.

• EAN : 9782752902641
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