The Bay of Angels - Rilegato

Brookner, Anita

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ISBN 10: 0375505822 ISBN 13: 9780375505829

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 2001

Riassunto

Newly liberated by her mother's sudden marriage and subsequent move to France, Zoe's freedom is cut short by the unexpected death of her stepfather and the mysteries surrounding his life, her mother's sudden illness, and her own struggle to come to terms with an uncertain future. 30,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“One of her very best. . . . A pure delight to read.” –San Francisco Chronicle

“An unusually beautiful and heartbreaking book.” –Detroit Free Press

“Brookner’s wit glows like a kind of background radiation that charges everything here. . . . She has never been more clearsighted, more compellingly brilliant.” –The Christian Science Monitor

“A wise story about competing impulses and the trade-offs we make to accommodate them.” –The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

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

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375505822
• ISBN 13: 9780375505829
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 200