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Erschienen am 19. Mai 2016
240 Seiten
978-0-241-97848-1 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
'Fiction taught her all she knew of life, taught her to interpret the lives of others.'
Dorothea May has had a reclusive life, particularly since the death of her husband Henry some fifteen years ago. Genteel, faint-hearted and solitary, her closest relatives are Henry's cousin, the imperious Kitty, and her husband Austin.
When Kitty's granddaughter comes to London to marry, Dorothea is bullied into providing a room for Steve, the best man, thus plunging her into a world of youth that she finds both puzzling and transforming.
Dorothea May has had a reclusive life, particularly since the death of her husband Henry some fifteen years ago. Genteel, faint-hearted and solitary, her closest relatives are Henry's cousin, the imperious Kitty, and her husband Austin.
When Kitty's granddaughter comes to London to marry, Dorothea is bullied into providing a room for Steve, the best man, thus plunging her into a world of youth that she finds both puzzling and transforming.
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Anita Brookner is a modern Jane Austen * Independent * Brookner's novels are seductively deceptive, swirling underneath their elegance and order are huge, if guarded, reservoirs of turbulence. * Daily Mail * One of the best things Brookner has done . . . Brookner, skilful and compassionate as ever, reveals her old-fashioned moral code to be both honourable and horrific. * Time Out * Like Jane Austen, this novelist works on a little square of ivory rather than a broad canvas . . . Like Virginia Woolf, her aim is not to draw characters in the round, but to reveal psychological reality in the deep. * The Times *Weitere Details
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Englisch
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London
Großbritannien
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0,51 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-241-97848-1 (9780241978481)
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Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and 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. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.
