School for Love

by Olivia Manning

Book Overview

Orphaned, friendless and bewildered, young Felix Latimer comes to war-time Jerusalem to lodge with Miss Bohun, one of the most redoubtable (and ridiculous) of comic horrors in English fiction. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590173031
• ISBN13: 9781590173039
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

A WRITER OF BRILLIANCE

Anyone who appreciates superior writers, vivid characterizations and the intersection of history and literature and who has not yet discovered and read any of Olivia Manning's novels must rectify this omission. Of the highest recommendation is Manning's Balkan Trilogy, Levant Trilogy and "School for Love" as well as a fascinating biography about the author written and published after her death. From the Balkan Trilogy, the first novel ("The Great Fortune") is masterfully written. The BBC series based on the two trilogies (Fortunes of War, with Emma Thompson) is a treasure. The recent new edition of "School for Love" with a foreword by Jane Smiley is a must for readers and collectors of fine literature.