Brief Lives - Brossura

Brookner, Anita

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140145389 ISBN 13: 9780140145380

Casa editrice: Penguin, 1991

Riassunto

Fay, celebrated ex-singer, meets the theatrical Julia and they begin a relationship of mutual distrust. It is a friendship sustained through loneliness, desperation and the morbid attraction of opposite characteristics as both women remain out of step with the time in which they live.

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L'autore:

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 Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.

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• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0140145389
• ISBN 13: 9780140145380
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224