Incidents in the Rue Laugier - Rilegato

Brookner, Anita

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 022404124X ISBN 13: 9780224041249

Casa editrice: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1995

Riassunto

Every summer Maud Gonthier, from Dijon, the only daughter of a widowed mother, is invited to La Gaillarderie, her aunt's large country house. This particular summer Maud is eighteen, a handsome young woman, but cautious, rigid, a girl who does not know how to flirt. At La Gaillarderie she will meet two Englishmen, David Tyler - assured, beautiful and ruthless - and Tyler's friend from Cambridge, Edward Harrison, a quiet dreamer. Maud, as is inevitable, is seduced by Tyler. They move, all three, to Paris, to an apartment on the Rue Laugier. Tyler, as is also inevitable, deserts Maud, leaving her pregnant. What is not inevitable is that Edward offers to marry her and that she agrees...

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Product Description:

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Copy is not price-clipped. Physical description: 219p.; 23cm. Summary: A captivating story of romance and responsibility, and a subtle dissection of the act of love and its consequences. The measured elegance of Anita Brookner's prose, and the moral force in her portraits of the 'spoiler' Tyler and the vainly dutiful Harrison, mark this as her very finest novel. Subject: English fiction, Fiction, General / Modern ; 20th century. Summer romance. Youth / social convention / rebellion / romance & responsibility. Genre: Fiction, text.

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• Editore: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 022404124X
• ISBN 13: 9780224041249
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 233