
Look At Me
$31.73
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
17 October 2016
Summary
The third novel from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac.
‘Once a thing is known it can never be unknown.’
By day Frances Hinton works in a medical library, by night she haunts the room of a West London mansion flat. Everything changes, however, when she is adopted by charming Nick and his dazzling wife Alix. They draw her into their tight circle of friends. Suddenly, Frances’ life is full and ripe with new engagements. But too late, Fr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241977774 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241977770 |
| Author: | Anita Brookner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 17 October 2016 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
Clever and engrossing.
How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit. * Guardian Summer Reads, 2015 *Bewitching. * The Times *Clever and engrossing. * David Lodge, Sunday Times *Flawless. * Observer, Books of the Year *Witty, intelligent and tirelessly perceptive. * Evening Standard *
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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