Altered States - Rilegato

Brookner, Anita

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ISBN 10: 0679449736 ISBN 13: 9780679449737

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1997

Riassunto

Lonely, shocked by his mother's remarriage, and haunted by memories of a passionate and destructive affair with Sarah Miller, Alan Sherwood becomes engaged to Angela, a fragile, needy woman, until Sarah unexpectedly reenters his life. 30,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"Engrossing-- a brilliant X-ray of obsession." -New York Times Book Review

"Brilliant.... In a category of its own." -The Globe and Mail

"Altered States -- is among [Brookner's] best. Its spare, gripping narrative and sombre, yet illuminating look at the power of passion is extraordinary." -The London Free Press

"Brookner's vision of human behaviour is scrupulously honest, without ever being cruel-- a gem of revelation." -Chicago Tribune


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L'autore:

Anita Brookner was born in London in 1928. She received a B.A. from King's College, University of London, and a Ph.D. in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute. Brookner taught at the University of Reading from 1959 to 1964, and since 1967 has been a Lecturer in Art History at the Courtauld. From 1967 to 1968 she was Slade Professor at Cambridge, the first woman to hold that position.

Since her first novel was published in 1981, Brookner has had a dual career as an art historian and a novelist. She has been remarkably successful in both fields and has published fourteen novels in as many years. Hotel du Lac, her fourth novel, won the Booker Prize, England's highest honor for fiction.
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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679449736
• ISBN 13: 9780679449737
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 229