Heather Levy: Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen sku-901411723

Heather Levy's sku-901411723 is a hardcover listed under Collectible Comics N.E. Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen's Shorter Fiction: Dead Reckoning examines Bowen's depictions of violence against herself and others, including the roles of landscape, mayhem, murder and suicide.

Levy discusses The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (2006), edited by Angus Wilson, and The Bazaar and Other Stories (2008), edited by Alan Hepburn. The book introduces five previously unpublished short-story fragments and two nearly complete stories from the Elizabeth Bowen Collection at the Harry Ransom Research Center.

Levy argues that Bowen's shorter fiction celebrates moral transgression, crime without punishment and suicide without mourners; that her response to offenders and violence anticipated the Perpetrator Trauma movement in the United States; and that her use of the short-story form produced an uncanny narration of violence.

The book draws together scholarship on Bowen's short stories and examines her unpublished work.