Dolly - Hardcover

Brookner, Anita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679423184 ISBN 13: 9780679423188

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1994

Synopsis

With the force of a hurricane, Dolly, with her perfumed mink and bored laugh, sweeps into the home of her mild-mannered sister-in-law, Henrietta Manning. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo.

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Review:

"Compelling...takes us deep into the territory of the heart, with all its rocky roads and shimmering possibilities,"

-- Los Angeles Times

"About as wonderful as anything Brookner has ever written."

-- Carol Kino, The New York Times Book Review

"Poignant, beautifully told.... Only a writer of great passion, conviction and artistry could [create such] a spellbinding portrait of the dreams and frustrations of the human heart."

-- Christian Science Monitor

From the Back Cover:

Anita Brookner has been called "one of the finest novelists of her generation" by The New York Times and "a latter-day Jane Austen" by Publishers Weekly. Now, in Dolly, Brookner continues to explore in her masterful way the changing truths of identity and relationships in the lives of women, with this brilliant portrait of a family. Mild and self-effacing, Jane Manning is ill prepared for the eruption into her life of her glamorous aunt, Dolly. Married to Jane's uncle, Dolly swirls into the Manning home, and, with her perfumed mink and bored laugh, makes it clear that her ways are not their ways, are not in fact anybody else's ways. Dolly becomes an object of both fascination and dread, and as Jane studies her aunt, she realizes that she and Dolly have absolutely nothing in common - nothing, except the fact that they are members of the same family. Jane begins to suspect that Dolly is not the woman she appears to be, that her elegant life is not as charming as she wants people to think. Then Dolly's husband dies, and Jane finds that she and her aunt are fated to be yoked together in uneasy social and financial harness. Brilliantly written, acutely observed, Dolly is Anita Brookner at her best, an elegant and illuminating exploration of how realities change, how power and perceptions alter over the course of a family's life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0679423184
• ISBN 13: 9780679423188
• Binding: Hardcover