Family And Friends
$35.77
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
17 October 2016
Summary
The fifth novel from the bestselling author of the Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac
‘Sofka gazes ahead, with her family’s future before her …’
Sofka Dorn, widowed matriarch of a prosperous German Jewish family living in England, rules her four children with an exacting hand. Frederick, the eldest son, is a disgracefully charming ‘ladies’ man, and like his flirtatious sister, Betty, is adored and indulged by his mother. Alfred and Mimi, both steady and solitary, are a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241977781 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241977789 |
| Author: | Anita Brookner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 17 October 2016 |
| Weight: | 138g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit. – Tessa Hadley on ‘A Start in Life’ * Guardian Summer Reads, 2015 *Dazzling. * Spectator *Works so brilliantly. * Daily Telegraph *Brookner has a merciless comic gift. * 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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