Undue Influence - Rilegato

Brookner, Anita

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ISBN 10: 037550334X ISBN 13: 9780375503344

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 2000

Riassunto

When a quiet, sheltered woman begins working in a bookstore and enters into a complicated affair, her entire life is thrown into upheaval.

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Praise for Anita Brookner

"        Brookner's impeccable craftsmanship and worldly irony make each of her novels memorable."                                                            --Publishers Weekly

"        One of the very few contemporary authors whose novels deserve to live on well into the next century."       --The Washington Post Book World

"        Brookner's control over the material is absolute."   --Jane Smiley

"        Anita Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an   education and a delight."    -- The Washington Post Book World

"        If Henry James were around, the only writer he'd be reading with complete approval would be Anita Brookner."    --The New York Times Book Review

"        Brookner is a writer of great skill and precision. Passages of brilliant writing abound, hard-won insights that startle us with Brookner's clarity and succinct intelligence."       --Michael Dorris, Los Angeles Times Book Review

L'autore:

Anita Brookner is the author of nineteen finely crafted novels, including Falling Slowly, Visitors, and Hotel du Lac, which won the Booker Prize. An international authority on eighteenth-century painting, she became the first female Slade Professor at Cambridge University. She lives in London.

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 037550334X
• ISBN 13: 9780375503344
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 231