A Start in Life
Anita Brookner(Author)
Penguin Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 27. June 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-14-014743-8 (ISBN)
Description
Since childhood, Ruth Weiss has been escaping from life into books, from the hothouse attentions of her parents into the warmth of lovers and friends. Now Dr Weiss, at 40, knows that her life has been ruined by literature and that once again she must make a new start.
Reviews / Votes
Excellent * Sunday Times * Enormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny tragi-comedy * Financial Times *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Weight
129 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-014743-8 (9780140147438)
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Person
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.