Incidents in the Rue Laugier - Softcover

Brookner, Anita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140252479 ISBN 13: 9780140252477

Publisher: Penguin, 1996

Synopsis

Demure Maud Gonthier expects the holiday at her aunt's house near Meaux to be no different from any other - an endless round of tennis with silly neighbours, walks in the garden, and familial manipulations. But in the torpid late-summer heat, Maud meets David Tyler and falls for his sensual charm.

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Review:

She is funny, vivid and devastating in her observations. (Helen Dunmore, Observer)

Anita Brookner has sublimely mastered the art of making her reader interested in her characters . . . a thoroughly enjoyable and most unusual novel. (Spectator)

An enchanting, honest novel. (Time Out)

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140252479
• ISBN 13: 9780140252477
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224