Background
Brookner was born in Herne Hill, a suburb of London.
(Despite growing up with a widowed and reclusive mother, y...)
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. Simon’s 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 Simon’s 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 mother’s 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.
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(Authors: Anita Brookner Publisher: Thames & Hudson Keywor...)
Authors: Anita Brookner Publisher: Thames & Hudson Keywords: david, louis, jacques Pages: 223 Published: 1987-04 Language: English ISBN-10: 0500274487 ISBN-13: 9780500274484 Binding: Paperback List Price: 18.95 USD
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In one of her most delicate and suspenseful novels to date, Anita Brookner brings us an exquisite story of friendship and duty. Rachel Kennedy and Oscar Livingston were not precisely friends or family. Rachel had been acquanted with Oscar for some time, first as her father’s accountant, and then as her own. Part owner of a London bookshop, Rachel is thoroughly independent and somewhat distant, determinedly restrained in her feelings for others, but above all responsible. And it is this trait that leads Oscar and his wife Dorrie to seek out Rachel as a mentor for their twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Heather. Yet when Heather seems poised to make an unsuitable romantic decision, Rachel decides to speak out and intervene, causing an unwitting and devastating insight.
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Incidents in the Rue Laugier (Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)) INCIDENTS IN THE RUE LAUGIER (VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES (PAPERBACK)) By Brookner, Anita ( Author )Jan-14-1997 Paperback
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(At twenty-six, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realizat...)
At twenty-six, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realization that if she is ever to become truly independent, she must leave her comfortable London flat and venture into the wider world. This entails not only breaking free from a claustrophobic relationship with her mother, but also shedding her inherited tendency toward melancholy. Once settled in a small Paris hotel, Emma befriends Fran?oise Desnoyers, a vibrant young woman who offers Emma a glimpse into a turbulent life so different from her own. In this exquisite new novel of self-discovery, Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner addresses one of the great dramas of our lives: growing up and leaving home.
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(Anita Brookner is justly famous for her elegant, almost J...)
Anita Brookner is justly famous for her elegant, almost Jamesian character studies of women poised on the threshold of life. But in Lewis Percy, she performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him.
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"THE MISALLIANCE BY ANITA BROOKNER, UNABRIDGED 6 AUDIO CASSETTES, 7.5 HOURS, NARRATED BY MARGARET HILTON: Certain rationalizations had be circulated before the divorce could tale place. "If a man decides to look elsewhere, you can be sure that his wife can't satisfy him." The friends all saw the wisdom of this. But Blanche's current isolation had to do more with a parallel defection of her own. Her habit of arcane references, her way of raising unsuitable matters at dinner parties came to be seen as evidence of thin blood, of reserve. And it was not always clear what Blanche meant. If you had not read the same books you did not always make sense of her allusions. "I see it all," said Blanche on the phone. "I am not adorable. And people think that I am frigid, and there is no posible way I can refute them. So clever of them, don't you think?" from case
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(After twenty years of marriage Blanche Vernon is alone; a...)
After twenty years of marriage Blanche Vernon is alone; abandoned by her husband Bertie for a childishly demanding computer expert named Mousie. While Blanche finds this turn of events baffling, she feels that Bertie must have left her because of her overly sensible demeanor. Yet many of their mutual friends disagree. In fact, Blanche has come to be regarded as undeniably eccentric--making elliptical remarks that no one knows how to read, and chatting at great length about characters in fiction. She resolutely fills her unwanted hours with activities, maintaining her excellent appearance, drinking increasingly more wine, and, in an attempt to turn her energy to good works, becoming severely enmeshed in the life of a disordered young family.
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(A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes th...)
A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered.
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(Maud Gonthier yearns for an escape from the cocoon of the...)
Maud Gonthier yearns for an escape from the cocoon of the bourgeois modesty. The splendid, caddish David Tyler appears to offer one. In this stylish, deeply knowing novel by the author of Hotel du Lac, Maud's seduction creates a chemistry of longing, sensuality, and betrayal--with a surprising climax. 240 pp.
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(In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassion...)
In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening. In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives.
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(A novel about the 50-year friendship of two dissimilar Ge...)
A novel about the 50-year friendship of two dissimilar German refugees brought over to England as children from Nazi Germany. Their friendship becomes a funny yet touching model for the ways in which human beings come to terms with the tragedy of living.
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(Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, se...)
Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and walking shoes, a man thinks he may be looking at the woman for whom he ruined his life many years earlier. Alan Sherwood, a quiet English solicitor, remembers back to a time when he stepped briefly out of character to indulge in a liaison with Sarah Miller, an intriguing but heartless distant relative--only to find himself in a series of absurd situations that culminated in his marriage to Sarah's clinging, childlike friend Angela. With her compassionate portrait of a man who has paid a terrible price for his folly, Anita Brookner gives us a novel that it at once harrowing and humane. In the traditions of Henry James and Thomas Mann, Altered States is a beautifully rendered tale of loneliness, guilt, and erotic obsession.
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Hotel du Lac is a smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching, and formidably clever. According to "The Times" the judges did well and the book does honour to the prize.
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(Elizabeth and Betsy had been school friends in 1950s Lond...)
Elizabeth and Betsy had been school friends in 1950s London. Elizabeth, prudent and introspective, values social propriety. Betsy, raised by a spinster aunt, is open, trusting, and desperate for affection. After growing up and going their separate ways, the two women reconnect later in life. Elizabeth has married kind but tedious Digby, while Betsy is still searching for love and belonging. In this deeply perceptive story, Anita Brookner brilliantly charts the resilience of a friendship tested by alienation and by jealousy over a man who seems to offer the promise of escape.
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Brookner was born in Herne Hill, a suburb of London.
She was educated at the private James Allen's Girls' School.
She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded the 1984 Man Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. Personal life
She was the only child of Newson Bruckner, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, and Maude Schiska, a singer whose father had emigrated from Poland and founded a tobacco factory.
Maude changed the family's surname to Brookner because of anti-German sentiment in Britain. In 1949 she received a BA in History from King's College London, and in 1953 a doctorate in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. = As academic In 1967 she became the first woman to hold the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Cambridge University.
She was promoted to Reader at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1977, where she worked until her retirement in 1988. She was a Fellow of King's College London and of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. = As novelist Already a published author of nonfiction, Brookner published her first novel, A Start In Life (1981), at the age of 53.
Thereafter, she published roughly a novel a year. Brookner was highly regarded as a stylist. Her novels explore themes of emotional loss and difficulties associated with fitting into society, and typically depict intellectual, middle-class women, who suffer isolation and disappointments in love.
Many of Brookner's characters are the children of European immigrants to Britain. A number appear to be of Jewish descent. 1990 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
(In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassion...)
(Authors: Anita Brookner Publisher: Thames & Hudson Keywor...)
(A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes th...)
(Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, se...)
(At twenty-six, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realizat...)
(Incidents in the Rue Laugier (Vintage Contemporaries (Pap...)
(After twenty years of marriage Blanche Vernon is alone; a...)
(Despite growing up with a widowed and reclusive mother, y...)
(In one of her most delicate and suspenseful novels to dat...)
(A novel about the 50-year friendship of two dissimilar Ge...)
(Anita Brookner is justly famous for her elegant, almost J...)
(Maud Gonthier yearns for an escape from the cocoon of the...)
("THE MISALLIANCE BY ANITA BROOKNER, UNABRIDGED 6 AUDIO CA...)
(Elizabeth and Betsy had been school friends in 1950s Lond...)
(Hotel du Lac is a smashing love story. It is very romanti...)
(Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction)
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