Brief Lives - Softcover

Brookner, Anita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140145389 ISBN 13: 9780140145380

Publisher: Penguin, 1991

Synopsis

Fay, celebrated ex-singer, meets the theatrical Julia and they begin a relationship of mutual distrust. It is a friendship sustained through loneliness, desperation and the morbid attraction of opposite characteristics as both women remain out of step with the time in which they live.

About this title

Product Description:

RO60078419. BRIEF LIVES. 1991. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 217 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

Review:

"Anita Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight." -- Washington Post Book World"Brookner [is] a writer of great skill and precision. Passages of brilliant writing abound, hard-won insights that startle us with Brookner's clarity and succinct intelligence." -- Michael Dorris, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Compelling...Brookner's vision of human behavior is scrupulously honest, without ever being cruel... a gem of revelation."

-- Hilma Wolitzer, Chicago Tribune

"Accomplished...compassionate, meditative and intelligent. Empathy informs all of Anita Brookner's novels, [and] Brief Lives is yet another instance of her large and knowing heart."

-- The New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0140145389
• ISBN 13: 9780140145380
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224