A FRIEND FROM ENGLAND - Hardcover

Brookner, Anita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394563875 ISBN 13: 9780394563879

Publisher: Pantheon, 1988

Synopsis

In a tale of gradual self-revelation, Rachel, her friend Heather, and Heather's parents live desperately ordinary lives, unable to take the chances necessary to find self-fulfillment

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Review

Anita Brookner s remarkable seventh novel will be remembered as one of her best. Woman's Journal"What increasingly marks Anita Brookner out as an especially fine novelist . . . is the marriage in her work between beauty of expression and infinite emotional pain, mitigated by irony. The prose rings so very true; her sentences have an effortless design." The Spectator"Admiration for the sureness of touch with which these two women and their little circle are brought to life is, I would guess, likely to be unanimous." Financial Times Sort of sneaks up on the reader, providing a deep, careful, haunting exploration of the human personality. Elle"Sparkling readability." Mail on Sunday Brookner is an artist of an exceptional purity. The New York Times Anita Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight. The Washington Post Book World Brookner is a writer of great skill and precision. Passages of brilliant writing abound, hard-won insights that startle us with Brookner s clarity and succinct intelligence. Los Angeles Times Book Review Few contemporary novelists can match Ms. Brookner s consistently high level of achievement: the penetration of her vision, the sense of conviction in what she is doing, and the unforced elegance of her writing. The Wall Street Journal"Anita Brookner is a novelist of astonishing technical skill, and A Friend from England is a very good book . . . if people who talk of her 'limitations' had themselves one tenth of her scope, ah, what critics they would be." The Independent (London)"

"Anita Brookner's remarkable seventh novel will be remembered as one of her best." -Woman's Journal"What increasingly marks Anita Brookner out as an especially fine novelist . . . is the marriage in her work between beauty of expression and infinite emotional pain, mitigated by irony. The prose rings so very true; her sentences have an effortless design." -The Spectator"Admiration for the sureness of touch with which these two women and their little circle are brought to life is, I would guess, likely to be unanimous." -Financial Times"Sort of sneaks up on the reader, providing a deep, careful, haunting exploration of the human personality." -Elle"Sparkling readability." -Mail on Sunday"Brookner is an artist of an exceptional purity." -The New York Times"Anita Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight." -The Washington Post Book World"Brookner is a writer of great skill and precision. Passages of brilliant writing abound, hard-won insights that startle us with Brookner's clarity and succinct intelligence."-Los Angeles Times Book Review"Few contemporary novelists can match Ms. Brookner's consistently high level of achievement: the penetration of her vision, the sense of conviction in what she is doing, and the unforced elegance of her writing." -The Wall Street Journal"Anita Brookner is a novelist of astonishing technical skill, and A Friend from England is a very good book . . . if people who talk of her 'limitations' had themselves one tenth of her scope, ah, what critics they would be." -The Independent (London)

Review

'There is real meaning to Brookner's characters, and this account of their lives is convincing, pitiful, just, admonitory, chilling and successful.' (Sunday Times)

'A deep, careful, haunting exploration of the human personality.' (Elle)

'Brookner is an artist of an exceptional purity.' (The New York Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0394563875
• ISBN 13: 9780394563879
• Binding: Hardcover