Making Things Better: A Novel - Rilegato

Brookner, Anita

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ISBN 10: 0375508880 ISBN 13: 9780375508882

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 2003

Riassunto

While considering whether or not to propose marriage to an old friend, to make a trip to Paris, to sell his home, and to start afresh, Herz also ponders what he is going to do with the remainder of his life to make it meaningful and satisfying. By the Booker Prize-winning author of The Bay of Angels. 35,000 first printing.

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“One of the very few contemporary authors whose novels deserve to live on well into the next century.”
—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

“Few contemporary novelists can match Ms. Brookner’s consistently high level of achievement: the penetration of her vision, the sense of conviction in what she is doing, and the unforced elegance of her writing.”
—The Wall Street Journal

“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.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review

“A superb storyteller in her prime.”
—The Globe and Mail

“Under...Brookner’s transforming eye, the most ordinary lives become engrossing adventures.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“Brookner’s control over the material is absolute.”
—Jane Smiley

L'autore:

Anita Brookner is the author of twenty-one beautifully crafted novels, including Fraud, 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 Cambridge University. She lives in London.

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375508880
• ISBN 13: 9780375508882
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 275