A Private View
$42.63
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2016
Summary
Novel from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac
George Bland had planned to spend his retirement in leisurely travel and modest entertainment with his friend Putnam. When Putnam dies, George is left attempting to impose some purpose on the solitary end of his life.
Then Katy Gibb appears as a temporary resident, perhaps even squatter, in a neighbouring apartment. Greedy, selfish, sometimes alluring, often manipulative, Katy exerts a strange influ…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241979471 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241979471 |
| Author: | Anita Brookner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2016 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 14mm |
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A beautiful book that one is impelled to read at one sitting
A beautiful book that one is impelled to read at one sitting * Evening Standard *Anita Brookner is our Henry James. She is as subtle as James at conveying emotional nuances by what is left unsaid, and by indirections finding directions out. * The 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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