A Closed Eye
Autor Anita Brookneren Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 noi 2016
Naive and undemanding, Harriet Lytton expects very little of life and that is what she recieves. Married to a respectable man old enough to be her father, Harriet's only taste of passion comes when she meets Jack Peckham, the unruly, attractive husband of her friend Tessa.
Tessa and Harriet have for many years been bound together by their childhood friendship and the imposed alliance of their two daughters, Imogen and Lizzie. But events conspire to shatter the gentle rhythm of Harriet's life. Tragically restrained by her own cautious choices, she faces the cruellest losses of all: those of hope and desire.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241979402
ISBN-10: 0241979404
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241979404
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Anita
Brookner
was
born
in
south
London
in
1928,
the
daughter
of
a
Polish
immigrant
family.
She
trained
as
an
art
historian,
and
worked
at
the
Courtauld
Institute
of
Art
until
her
retirement
in
1988.
She
published
her
first
novel,A
Start
in
Life,
in
1981
and
her
twenty-fourth,Strangers,
in
2009.Hotel
du
Lacwon
the
1984
Booker
Prize.
As
well
as
fiction,
Anita
Brookner
has
published
a
number
of
volumes
of
art
criticism.
Recenzii
A
bravura
performance
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.
The portrait of Harriet's sad, kind marriage is superb; and Harriet herself is the best Brookner heroine since Edith ofHotel du Lac.
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.
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.
The portrait of Harriet's sad, kind marriage is superb; and Harriet herself is the best Brookner heroine since Edith ofHotel du Lac.
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.
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With the same compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance that have won her comparisons with Jane Austen and Henry James, the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac and Brief Lives explores the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening.
With the same compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance that have won her comparisons with Jane Austen and Henry James, the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac and Brief Lives explores the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening.