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A Friend from England
Amazon CA — EAN 9781400095216 Edition Reprint ISBN 1400095212 Number Of Pages 208More…
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A Friend from England
Amazon.com — A novel full of melancholy Rachel Kennedy is a solitary and self-sufficient woman who likes to lead a well-ordered life free of commitments and emotional turmoil. She owns a small bookshop in London and one day befriends Heather Livingstone and her ...More…
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The Rules of Engagement: A Novel
Amazon.com — The "rules" can be harsh and unevenly applied (4.5*s) As seen through the eyes of Elizabeth, a middle-aged Londoner with an upper middle-class upbringing, this book is a most prescient examination of what life can bring in that social milieu: ...More…
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Making Things Better
Amazon.com — Can One Recapture a Life? This book is an immensely insightful character study of seventyish Julius Herz, now living alone in London after outliving his parents and brother, all of whom were forced to leave Germany during the Nazi regime. Julius' life ...More…
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Eustace and Hilda: A Trilogy (New York Review Books ...
Amazon.com — A masterpiece... Certainly the most complicated and complex set of charcters in literature. And that THE charcters count up to only two only serves to underline the essence of the book. The trilogy is basically an exploration of releationship between a ...More…
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The Constant Nymph (Virago Modern Classics)
Amazon.com — Child of Grace v. Children of Nature . . . "The Constant Nymph" is author and playwright Margaret Kennedy's best known work. Written in the early 1920s, this novel may seem a bit dated in its language and cultural references to modern ...More…
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Visitors: A Novel
Amazon.com — One of her Best--and I've Read Them All! An editor of mine once said to me that he didn't think a wholelot happened in an Anita Brookner novel. "It's like somebody takes a painting off the wall and contemplates the patch of wallpaper that ...More…
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Altered States
Amazon.com — Tragic Yet Tender... A literary tapestry of passion, obsession, melancholy and despair, Altered States cuts straight to the heart of the human condition. So resonant is this brutally poetic saga of innocence lost, the reader cannot help but to reflect ...More…
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A Closed Eye
Amazon.com — Another depressing yet quite irresistable Brookner voyage... The first half of the book contains, as do almost all Brookner books, a compelling word-picture of a girl, growing to maturity in a social landcape of seemingly appalling emptiness. Her rather ...More…
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Incidents in the Rue Laugier
Amazon.com — A human tragedy. This novel was truly depressing. It was all about the childhood dreams of the two main characters, Maud and Edward, and how their small dreams never came to fruition. Throughout the book the characters strive for and constantly fall short ...More…
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Undue Influence
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review A new Anita Brookner is unlikely to surprise, unlikely to shock or disturb. Yet her fiction remains utterly compelling. Undue Influence, her 19th novel, follows the usual pattern: a single, bookish woman, whose life is dominated by ...More…
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The Bay of Angels
Amazon.com — For experienced Brookner readersonly First off, I love Anita Brookner and have read everything I know of that she has written. She writes, in my opinion, the most elegant prose and has a unique gift for penetrating layers and sublayers of her characters- ...More…