The Reef (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Brookner, Anita; Wharton, Edith

 
9780140187311: The Reef (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.)

Synopsis

Anna, an American widow living in France, has renewed her relationship with her first love, diplomat George Darrow. But on his way to her chateau, where he hopes to consolidate their marriage plans, Darrow encounters Sophy, who is as vibrant and spontaneous as Anna is reserved and restrained.

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About the Author

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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