A Closed Eye - Hardcover

Brookner, Anita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224030906 ISBN 13: 9780224030908

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1991

By the winner of the 1984 Booker Prize and the author of Brief Lives, this story evokes loss and regret. Harriet, who felt excluded from love even as a child, marries a contemporary of her father. When she meets her friend's young husband, she is instantly aware of the compromises she has made.

Review:

A bravura performance (Observer)

Anita Brookner's eleventh novel is one of her best . . . She is a great writer. And her final pages, which unfold into a surprising, radiant kindness, will move you to tears. (Mail on Sunday)

The portrait of Harriet's sad, kind marriage is superb; and Harriet herself is the best Brookner heroine since Edith of Hotel du Lac. (New Statesman)

Loneliness can hardly have been better portrayed . . . This is Anita Brookner at her most sombre: yet not gloomy or depressing - the writing is too good. (Financial Times)

Book Description:

From the winner of the 1984 Booker Prize and the author of Brief Lives, comes a story of loss and regret.

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0224030906
• ISBN 13: 9780224030908
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256