Falling Slowly - Hardcover

Brookner, Anita

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670881910 ISBN 13: 9780670881918

Publisher: Viking, 1998

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Beatrice considers herself delicate and sensitive, idle and confused. A piano accompanist forced into early retirement, her taste in books reveals an unashamed and romantic desire to be rescued by the ideal man. But Beatrice's only family is her orderly and independent sister Miriam. Miriam has known a loveless marriage, but unlike Beatrice she has also known love: both the kind based on desire and the kind based on esteem. In this, her eighteenth novel, Anita Brookner weaves a heart-wrenching tale of loneliness and friendship, fate and opportunity. In FALLING SLOWLY Brookner is at the top of her form as a twentieth century moralist.

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Review:

'How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.' (The Guardian)

'A sensationally good writer.' (Mail on Sunday)

Book Description:

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

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