{"product_id":"the-hotel","title":"The Hotel","description":"Elizabeth Bowen's first novel brilliantly captures the inflammatory mixture of passion and repression among well-heeled 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 freedom--and becomes obsessed with a clever and charming older woman--she increasingly bewilders her suitors, her handlers, and herself. With the psychological precision and command of atmosphere that marks Bowen's most famous novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e depicts a collection of privileged men and women in determined denial of a world that is falling apart around them.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833716551885,"sku":"9780593080658","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_e497d17a-4f4a-48a7-b616-a782d23bd889.jpg?v=1790894451","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/the-hotel","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}