Hotel du Lac
$31.42
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
24 February 1994
Summary
Reissue of Brookner’s best-known and bestselling Man Booker Prize-winning novel
The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era.
Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140147476 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140147470 |
| Author: | Anita Brookner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 24 February 1994 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 14mm |
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A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever The Times A classic…a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now Spectator Written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart Observer She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction Literary Review
About The Author
Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.
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