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THE WATCH TOWER

Elizabeth Harrower

After Laura and Clare are abandoned by their mother, Felix is there to help, even to marry Laura if she will have him. Little by little the two sisters grow complicit in his obsessions, his cruelty, his need to control.

Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, THE WATCH TOWER is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power. Its sharp observations and searing insights into the darkest aspects of humanity make it unique and unforgettable.

Elizabeth Harrower was born in Sydney in 1928. THE WATCH TOWER, her fourth and final novel, was published in 1966. She was admired by many of her contemporaries, including Patrick White and Christina Stead, and is without doubt among the most important writers of the postwar period in Australia. Elizabeth Harrower lives in Sydney.

Foreword by Joan London. Text Classics series.

DIE TRaeUME DER ANDEREN
Deutsch von Alissa Walser
[ HC Aufbau 11/19 ]
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Published 1966-05-11 by Macmillan

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Ben Whishaw has selected THE WATCH TOWER by Elizabeth Harrower as one of his cultural highlights in this feature for the Guardian. [Harrower] seems hyper-aware of currents under the surface of human relationships, the conflict between having to keep up a certain social normality and the burning emotions underneath." Read more...

One has to think hard of a book in which so much pleasure has been wrenched from so much pain - Many of the [stories] are studies in confinement or the performances of that confinement, written with such perfection and order that one can only call them devotional. -- John Freeman reviewed A FEW DAYS IN THE COUNTRY: AND OTHER STORIES in The Australian last week Read more...

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