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The Echoing Grove (Virago Modern Classics)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Underrated Novel and Writer
 The Echoing Grove (Virago Modern Classics)
Rosamond Lehmann
Manufacturer: Virago Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1844083128

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Underrated Novel and Writer.......2005-08-09

I was introduced to this novel when I rented the recent movie The Heart of Me; while watching that lovely film, I kept thinking to myself that this had to be based on a novel as screenplays rarely have the depth of characterization and event that novels do. I was rewarded with the title "The Echoing Grove" when I read the end credits.

This novel tells the story of two sisters, one conventional and conventionally married and one a new bohemian of the lost generation who is having an affair with her sisters unhappy husband. Despite all experience to the contrary, the adulterous husband and the betraying sister are in love and attempt to pursue this love. They are thwarted by the wife with the help of her mother and tragedy ensues for all concerned.

The story is told in a series of flashbacks after WWII has ended leaving Europe and the two survivng sisters devastated as they attempt to overcome the betrayal both of them feel while bearing the losses both have sustained. Family dysfunction, sibling rivalry, thwarted romantic love, the prison of social convention, transcendent yearning, the devastation of war and the horrors that all life unleashes on its adherents and the final break with the past that the end of WWII brought are all explored in this stunning novel.

Rarely have I read a novel so insightful about every kind of personal relationship, even those random relationships that one enters when what one really wants is unavailable, and into the dynamic of happiness sought and tragedy gained.

If the writing had been less dreamy, I think this would be considered one of the great novels of the twentieth century rather than being relegated to the category of old-fashioned women's fiction. It is clear that women's writing really is suppressed when a novel of this depth is all but forgoten.

I highly recommend both the novel and the movie.
The Echoing Grove
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    		The Echoing Grove
    Sangetta Gupta
    Manufacturer: National Publishing House
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Hardcover

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    ASIN: 8121401488
    The Echoing Grove
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      		The Echoing Grove
      Rosamond Lehmann
      Manufacturer: Penguin Books
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Unknown Binding
      ASIN: B0000CJVHE
      The Echoing Grove
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        		The Echoing Grove
        Rosamond Lehman
        Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Hardcover
        ASIN: B000KRVD1S
        THE ECHOING GROVE , by the author of Invitation to a Waltz
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          		THE ECHOING GROVE , by the author of Invitation to a Waltz
          Rosamond Lehmann
          Manufacturer: Harcourt, Brace and Company
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Hardcover
          ASIN: B000NGSYTK
          Echoing Grove
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            		Echoing Grove
            Roasmond Lehmann
            Manufacturer: VIRAGO (LITT)
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Paperback
            ASIN: B000GSQ6RM
            The Echoing Grove
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              		The Echoing Grove
              Rosamund Lehmann
              Manufacturer: Harcourt, Brace
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Hardcover
              ASIN: B0000CII3I
              Echoing Grove
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                		Echoing Grove
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                Manufacturer: CAMERA OBSCURA
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Audio CD

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                ASIN: 6305426279
                The Echoing Grove
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                  		The Echoing Grove
                  Rosamond Lehmann
                  Manufacturer: Collins
                  ProductGroup: Book
                  Binding: Hardcover
                  ASIN: B000NPY5E4
                  The Echoing Grove by Lehmann, Rosamond
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                    		The Echoing Grove by Lehmann, Rosamond
                    Rosamond Lehmann
                    Manufacturer: Harcourt
                    ProductGroup: Book
                    Binding: Paperback
                    ASIN: B000OJDOBE

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