Издания и произведения

Невероятно аутентичный взгляд на супружество в долгосрочной перспективе — из настоящего в прошлое — история брака, глазами женщины, которой не дали право выбора. Действие начинается в 1950 году, каждая последующая часть уводит нас все дальше в прошлое по жизни миссис Флеминг, пока мы не переносимся в 1926 год, где видим ее юной девушкой Тони, которую на пути к замужеству ждут обманы из лучших побуждений, растерянность, холодность матери и замкнутость отца. Никакой другой она просто не могла стать. Антонию болезненно сформировали — общество, семья и муж. «Жизнь проживается вперед, но понимается в обратном направлении», — сказал…

Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one woman. Observant and heartbreaking, written with exhilarating wit, it is a gut-wrenching account of the birth and death of a relationship - as extraordinary as it is timeless. One of his secret pleasures was the loading of social dice against himself. He did not seem for one moment to consider the efforts made by kind or sensitive people to even things up: or if such notions ever occurred to him, he would have observed them with detached amusement, and reloaded more dice. In 1950s London, Antonia Fleming faces the…

Moving backward in time from the '50s to the '20s, "The Long View" presents a revealing portrait of a marriage -- that of Antonia and Conrad Fleming. Told through Antonia's eyes, it is a gut-wrenching and extraordinary look at marriage -- both from the outside in and from present to pass.

Moving slowly back in time over twenty-four years we share moments in the life of Antonia Fleming. The Long View roves through the years from the break-up of her marriage, through its gradual erosion, to the first meeting with her future husband.

Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one woman. Observant and heartbreaking, written with exhilarating wit, it is a gut-wrenching account of the birth and death of a relationship - as extraordinary as it is timeless. One of his secret pleasures was the loading of social dice against himself. He did not seem for one moment to consider the efforts made by kind or sensitive people to even things up: or if such notions ever occurred to him, he would have observed them with detached amusement, and reloaded more dice. In 1950s London, Antonia Fleming faces the…