The Debut
Published on 12. June 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-9821-0751-2 (ISBN)
Description
An “almost flawless novel” (People) about a quiet scholar who is convinced that her life has been ruined by literature and that she must make a new start in life.
Since childhood, Ruth Weiss had been escaping from life into books, and from the attentions of her eccentric parents into the gentler warmth and company of friends and lovers. Now at forty years old, an academic devoted to the study of Balzac, she believes that literature has ruined her life and that she must once again, make a fresh start. “Lively, filled with gentle humor” (Miami Herald) this is an elegant and wry novel that will stay with you long after the final page is turned.
Since childhood, Ruth Weiss had been escaping from life into books, and from the attentions of her eccentric parents into the gentler warmth and company of friends and lovers. Now at forty years old, an academic devoted to the study of Balzac, she believes that literature has ruined her life and that she must once again, make a fresh start. “Lively, filled with gentle humor” (Miami Herald) this is an elegant and wry novel that will stay with you long after the final page is turned.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
182 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9821-0751-2 (9781982107512)
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Anita Brookner was the author of several novels, including Fraud, Dolly, Brief Lives, Incidents in the Rue Laugier, and the Booker Prize winner Hotel du Lac. She was the first female Slade Professor at Cambridge University and is well-known as an international authority on eighteenth-century painting.