Leaving Home (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

Brookner, Anita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1400095654 ISBN 13: 9781400095650

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007

Synopsis

At twenty-six, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realization that if she is ever to become truly independent, she must leave her comfortable London flat and venture into the wider world. This entails not only breaking free from a claustrophobic relationship with her mother, but also shedding her inherited tendency toward melancholy. Once settled in a small Paris hotel, Emma befriends Fran?oise Desnoyers, a vibrant young woman who offers Emma a glimpse into a turbulent life so different from her own. In this exquisite new novel of self-discovery, Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner addresses one of the great dramas of our lives: growing up and leaving home.

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Review:

"A small gem of clarity and intensity. Her latest, Leaving Home, promises--and delivers--the savory experience devotees of Brookner have come to crave." --The Baltimore Sun"Yet another delicious reading experience. Her elegant prose and psychological acuity are fully on display. . . . As a narrator Emma is both clear-eyed and honest--often achingly so." --The Christian Science Monitor"Beautiful, piercingly elegant." --New York Times Book Review"It's hard to pinpoint how Brookner's world differs from the one we know, since the minute we begin reading her fiction, we lose our awareness of the boundaries that separate us from the people whose often circumscribed lives she is so deftly describing. . . . Admirable and refreshing." --Bookforum

From the Back Cover:

`Enthralling ... so beautifully observed ... as captivating as any thriller' Marie Claire

`Spare and devastating, powerful. Brookner is an unflinching novelist who writes beautifully and fearlessly' Independent

`Elegiac ... its magnificent final sentence is among the most moving of Brooknerian conclusions' New Statesman

`Clever and elegant' Sunday Times

`Brookner is brilliant ... readers will not be disappointed. Her women are very real, more recognizable and more human than any obviously loveable character could hope to be' Sunday Herald

`So well done - so carefully is the novel wrought - that reading it offers deep and enduring pleasure' Scotsman

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1400095654
• ISBN 13: 9781400095650
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224