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The Bay of Angelsby Anita BrooknerISBN 0375727604 (0-375-72760-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bay of Angels'Book summary:Despite growing up with a widowed and reclusive mother, young Zoë Cunningham retains an unshakable faith in storybook happy endings. When her mother, Anne, finally decides to remarry, Zoë is thrilled with her prospective stepfather, Simon Gould, who is not only wealthy, but also kind and generous. Simons affection for his new family allows Zoë to pursue what she thinks is an independent life: her own apartment in a fashionable part of London, a university education, casual affairs, and carefree holidays at Simons villa in Nice. When a series of unexpected calamities intervene, Zoë learns that the idyllic freedom she enjoys has come at a steep price. To preserve both her mothers and her own sense of wellbeing, Zoë must discern the real motives of the strangers on whom she now depends, including the silent and mysterious man whose nocturnal movements have attracted her attention. [via]
Brief Livesby Anita BrooknerISBN 0394222695 (0-394-22269-5)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada, Limited
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A Closed Eyeby Anita BrooknerISBN 0394223349 (0-394-22334-9)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada, Limited
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Dollyby Anita BrooknerISBN 0394224388 (0-394-22438-8)
Softcover, Random House of Canada, Limited
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Falling Slowlyby Anita BrooknerISBN 0375704248 (0-375-70424-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Falling Slowly'Book summary:Anita Brookner has no illusions about desire--or illusion--yet she is well aware of their unrelenting power. In her 18th novel, Falling Slowly, two sisters lead lives of quiet but no less painful panic. Beatrice Sharpe, a classical accompanist who is at the end of her career and health, has long dreamed of the protection of men. Alas, what her older sister, Miriam, thinks of as a "disastrous innocence" seems to have imprisoned and defeated her. Miriam, on the other hand, who is in her late 40s and divorced, prides herself on her strategies for getting through the long London days. Her work as a translator, though not ultimately fulfilling, keeps her occupied and marginally undefeated.
Both had been taught by their parents to expect little and complain less, yet they are surrounded by a world of interconnection and privilege that is ever out of reach. The narrative offers Miriam first the possibility of passion (illicit and guilt-making) and then a chance for commitment. Since we are in Brooknerland, you can guess how this will turn out. Beatrice is considerably less fortunate. At one point, the two discuss a Colette tale. The more knowing Miriam decides that the author comes out of it better than her characters, because she's the onlooker. Beatrice, surprisingly, has the last word: "There must be some consolation for being an onlooker," she realizes. "The role is not always an enviable one." Out of such seemingly minor moments, Brookner creates a tragedy, her exquisite, controlled sentences sculpting broken lives in which control itself is the culprit. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Family and Friendsby Anita BrooknerISBN 0394546164 (0-394-54616-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Family and Friends'Book summary:In an ambitious departure from her usual form, Anita Brookner expands her canvas in FAMILY AND FRIENDS to create a richly textured novel about the life of a wealthy Jewish family in London, centering upon the generation that came to maturity between the two World Wars. "Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight".--WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD. [via]
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Fraudby Anita BrooknerISBN 0394223292 (0-394-22329-2)
Softcover, Random House of Canada, Limited
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Great Paintingsby Anita BrooknerISBN 0312346360 (0-312-34636-0)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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Greuze:the Rise and Fall of an Eighteenth-Century Phenomenon: The Rise and Fall of an Eighteenth-Century Phenomenonby Anita BrooknerISBN 0236176781 (0-236-17678-1)
Hardcover, Elek
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Hotel du Lacby Anita BrooknerISBN 0394542150 (0-394-54215-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hotel du Lac'Book summary:Hotel du Lac is the classic Booker Prize winning novel by Anita Brookner. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating spinsterhood is renewed..."A classic ...a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now". (Spectator). "A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever". (The Times). "Hotel du Lac is written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart". (Observer). "Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding". (Hilary Mantel, Guardian). "She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction". (Literary Review). 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. [via]
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Incidents in the Rue Laugierby Anita BrooknerISBN 039422437X (0-394-22437-X)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada, Limited
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The Letters to Gustave Flaubertby Francis Steegmuller, Anita BrooknerISBN 0330488473 (0-330-48847-3)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
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Look at Meby Anita BrooknerISBN 0394529448 (0-394-52944-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Making Things Betterby Anita BrooknerISBN 0375508880 (0-375-50888-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Misallianceby Anita BrooknerISBN 0394553403 (0-394-55340-3)
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry James, Pierre A. Walker, Anita BrooknerISBN 0375759190 (0-375-75919-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portrait of a Lady'Book summary:One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, affront her destiny. James began The Portrait of a Lady without a plot or subject, only the slim but provocative notion of a young woman taking control of her fate. The result is a richly imagined study of an American heiress who turns away her suitors in an effort to first establishand then protecther independence. But Isabels pursuit of spiritual freedom collapses when she meets the captivating Gilbert Osmond. Jamess formidable powers of observation, his stance as a kind of bachelor recorder of human doings in which he is not involved, writes Hortense Calisher, make him a first-class documentarian, joining him to that great body of storytellers who amass what formal history cannot. [via]
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A Private Viewby Anita BrooknerISBN 0394224078 (0-394-22407-8)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada, Limited
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Providenceby Anita BrooknerISBN 0394529456 (0-394-52945-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Romanticism and Its Discontentsby Anita BrooknerISBN 0374527849 (0-374-52784-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Undue Influenceby Anita BrooknerISBN 0375707344 (0-375-70734-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Visitorsby Anita BrooknerISBN 0224042882 (0-224-04288-2)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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