Lewis Percy - Hardcover

Brookner, Anita

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328 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224026682 ISBN 13: 9780224026680

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1989

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By the author of "Hotel Du Lac" which won the 1984 Booker Prize, "Family and Friends" and "Latecomers", this novel concentrates on the life of one man who, via a course of events, finds his standards have changed and searches for an alternative lifeline which comes from an unexpected quarter.

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Review:

"Each new Brookner novel...guarantees the pleasures of a mature intelligence, felicitous language, quirky humor, intensely believable characters, bitter-sweet karma and shapely narrative....A brilliantly executed novel."

-- Phillip Lopate,

The New York Times Book Review"Anita Brookner never ceases to surprise. In this sly and delectable fiction...an artist has extended her range."-Boston Globe

"Confirms Anita Brookner's reputation as a novelist....There is a solemn felicity, a classical sense of fairness inherent in Lewis Percy. This, with the author's sane humor, told in her elegant, lucid prose, combines to make something truly remarkable."

-- San Francisco Chronicle

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Anita Brookner 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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