Lewis Percy
Autor Anita Brookneren Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2016
Destined to be a haunter of libraries, Lewis's cautious progress through life reveals to him only his own shortcomings. Estranged from his wife and daughter, he searches for an alternative. This novel presents the life and aspirations of one man who remains out of step with his times.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241977798
ISBN-10: 0241977797
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241977797
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.33 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
How
can
anything
be
so
funny
and
so
sad
both
at
once?
Every
sentence
is
an
object
lesson
in
compression
and
wit.
'A searching study of innocence, and the limitations of innocence.'
Elegant, nuanced; at times almost Jamesian in its convolution and subtlety.
'A searching study of innocence, and the limitations of innocence.'
Elegant, nuanced; at times almost Jamesian in its convolution and subtlety.
Textul de pe ultima copertă
Anita Brookner performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him.