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The author's fourth novel is a portrait of an intelligent woman grappling with the questions of nationality, religion, identity, her place in the world and what to cook for dinner. Salvation is found in words, in the Romantic tradition and in literature.
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How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit. (Tessa Hadley on 'A Start in Life' Guardian Summer Reads, 2015)
All is sheer delight. (Daily Telegraph)
Thoroughly enjoyable. (Guardian)
Beautiful. (Spectator)
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All is sheer delight. (Daily Telegraph)
Thoroughly enjoyable. (Guardian)
Beautiful. (Spectator)
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.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0140147446
- ISBN 13 9780140147445
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- Number of pages192
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