Falling Slowly (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

Brookner, Anita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375704248 ISBN 13: 9780375704246

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000

Synopsis

In Falling Slowly, Anita Brookner brilliantly evokes the origins, nature, and consequences of human isolation. As middle age settles upon the Sharpe sisters, regret over chances not taken casts a shadow over their contented existence. Beatrice, a talented if uninspired pianist, gives up performing, a decision motivated by stiffening joints and the sudden realization that her art has never brought her someone to love. Miriam, usually calm and lucid, slides headlong into an affair with a charming, handsome--and very married--man. And as each woman awakens to the urgency of her loneliness, illness threatens to sever them both from the one happiness they have grown to count on: each other. Painfully wise, the Sharpe sisters embody the conflicting yearnings Jane Austen delineated in Sense and Sensibility.

About this title

Review:

"Brookner is a writer of great skill and precision." --Los Angeles Times
Book Review

"If Henry James were around, the only writer he'd be reading with complete approval would be Anita Brookner." --The New York Times Book Review

"Few contemporary novelists can match Ms. Brookner's consistently high level of achievement." --The Wall Street Journal

"Anita Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an
education and a delight." --The Washington Post Book World

Book Description:

A tale of loneliness and friendship evoking the origins, nature and consequences of human isolation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375704248
• ISBN 13: 9780375704246
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240