The sleeping beauty
by Elizabeth Taylor
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An unconventional tale of a modern middle-aged knight-errant who lays romantic siege to an emotionally frozen woman. The setting is a seaside town of summer trippers and concrete promenades lapped by the mysterious ocean. Vinny, the knight-errant, comes down from London to console and advise Isabella, a recently widowed friend. He is high-minded, kindly, sensitive, and his bachelor life appears to be an open book—a book that seems a trifle too faultlessly organized. Then he meets Isabella's neighbor Emily, who, because of a near-fatal motor accident, is an apathetic recluse in the home of her querulous, predatory sister. Vinny, captivated by her remote loveliness, draws Emily out of her sleep-walker's role, back to emotional reality, and becomes released himself in the process.
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