A Start in Life
$31.25
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
17 October 2016
Summary
The first novel from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac.
‘Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.’
Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment.
Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships and doomed Parisian love affairs…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241977750 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241977754 |
| Author: | Anita Brookner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 17 October 2016 |
| Weight: | 128g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 11mm |
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How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.
Excellent * Sunday Times *Enormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny tragi-comedy * Financial Times *How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit. – Tessa Hadley * Guardian Summer Reads, 2015 *A delight, amusing, beautifully written. * The Times *Enormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny tragi-comedy. * Financial Times *Excellent, brilliantly drawn. * Sunday 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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