A View of the Harbour

This classic literary novel of gossip and romantic betrayal in a small English shore town is “a nuanced study of the push and pull between domestic and artistic labor” ( The New Yorker ). “Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen—soul sisters all.” —Anne Tyler Blindness and betrayal are Elizabeth Taylor’s great subjects, and in A View of the Harbour she turns her unsparing gaze on the emotional and sexual politics of a seedy seaside town that’s been left behind by modernity. T