Summary
From the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac.
Fay Langdon has relinquished her singing career to marry Owen, a highly successful solicitor. At one of their dinner parties, Fay meets the glamorous, self-obsessed Julia and is destined to join the handful of acolytes who provide Julia with ammunition for her merciless scorn and disapprobation.
As the years pass and Fay and Julia’s lives grow empty of purpose, they are drawn together by their f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241979396 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241979390 |
| Author: | Anita Brookner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2016 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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One of Brookner’s best novels
One of Brookner’s best novels * Penelope Lively, The Observer *Utterly absorbing … so great is Brookner’s skill as a writer that you will find it difficult not to devour this brilliant novel at one long sitting. * Daily Mail *A subtle and thorough exploration of the relationship between nostalgia and old age … Brooker [is] one of the bravest novelists around. * Jonathan Coe, Guardian *Compression, economy and the ability to conjure up an entire personality with a few adroitly chosen words. Brief Lives is a perfect demonstration of these gifts. * Penelope Lively, Evening Standard *
About The Author
Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner
Born in south London in 1928, Anita Brookner was the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She pursued a career as an art historian, holding a professorship at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris before returning to the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she worked until her retirement in 1988.
Brookner published her debut novel, A Start in Life, in 1981, followed by her twenty-fourth novel, Strangers, in 2009. In 1984, she achieved significant recognition when her novel Hotel du Lac won the Booker Prize. In addition to her fiction, Anita Brookner authored several volumes of art criticism.
She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990 and passed away in 2016 at the age of 87.
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