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- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2016
Summary
From the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac
Alan Sherwood is a cautious, solitary London solicitor who finds himself obsessed by his glamorous cousin Sarah. But Sarah is self-seeking and predatory, and their short-lived affair leaves Alan desolate. He finds distraction in Angela, a homely, needy acquaintance of Sarah, and they drift into marriage.
Alan, however, is haunted by his memories of Sarah, and, attempting to recapture the wordless…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241979518 |
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| ISBN-10: | 024197951X |
| 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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This is one of the best novels Brookner has written. I was mesmerised from start to finish, and it is shot through with a maturity and depth of perception that leaves you breathless with admiration. * Daily Mail *As a novelist Anita Brookner is both infinitely various and adorably unique. * Spectator *Witty, painful, often moving in their bleak truthfulness, Anita Brookner’s novels show mastery in a very specific genre. This quiet novel is yet another reminder that she is a novelist whose art and understanding are much wider than the world she chronicles so chillingly. * Irish Times *
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 after holding a post as a professor at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris, she 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. In 1984, she won the Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner published a number of volumes of art criticism.
She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990. She died in 2016 at the age of 87.
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