Hotel du Lac
$23.07
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2023
Summary
Anita Brookner’s best-known and bestselling Man Booker Prize-winning novel - now a Penguin Essential
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 embarrass…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241996560 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241996562 |
| Author: | Anita Brookner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 110g |
| Dimensions: | 181mm x 112mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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Miss Brookner’s most absorbing novel … graceful and attractive * New York Times *Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding * Hilary Mantel, Guardian *
Hotel du Lac is written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart
* Observer *The last great novelist of the 20th century * Daily Telegraph *A classic … a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now * Spectator *A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever * The Times *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 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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