Fraud - Rilegato

Brookner, Anita

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ISBN 10: 0679416064 ISBN 13: 9780679416067

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1993

Riassunto

After devoting the best years of her life to the care of her ailing mother, Anna Durrant, a compliant, dependable, and now aged woman, disappears, in a work that explores the inner turmoil of women short-changed by life. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

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Recensione:

"Starts like a classic detective story and continues like a metaphysical mystery...fascinating [and] deeply satisfying. Brookner's most enjoyable novel in many years."-- San Francisco Chronicle

"Sophisticated and intelligent...Although Brookner has often been compared to Jane Austen, Henry James is the author she brings most to mind. She is [as] responsive to mystery as she is to the mysterious inner matters of her characters' minds. Brookner has written a novel of...suffering and of momentary but somehow very large triumph."-- Frederick Busch, Chicago Tribune

"Brookner's usual satiny prose is carefully disciplined, beguilingly smooth.... A study of character [that] skillfully evokes the vicissitudes of friendship."-- New York Newsday
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

of Anita Brookner's new novel lies a double mystery: What has happened to Anna Durrant, a solitary woman of a certain age who has disappeared from her London flat? And why has it taken four months for anyone to notice?

As Brookner reconstructs Anna's life and character through the eyes of her acquaintances, she gives us a witty yet ultimately devastating study of self-annihilating virtue while exposing the social, fiscal, and moral frauds that are the underpinnings of terrifying rectitude.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679416064
• ISBN 13: 9780679416067
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida