A Friend from England - Brossura

Brookner, Anita

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ISBN 10: 1400095212 ISBN 13: 9781400095216

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2005

Riassunto

In a tale of gradual self-revelation, Rachel Kennedy, her friend Harriet, and Harriet's parents live desperately ordinary lives, unable to take the chances necessary to find self-fulfillment. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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“Anita Brookner’s remarkable seventh novel will be remembered as one of her best.” –Woman's Journal"What increasingly marks Anita Brookner out as an especially fine novelist . . . is the marriage in her work between beauty of expression and infinite emotional pain, mitigated by irony. The prose rings so very true; her sentences have an effortless design." –The Spectator"Admiration for the sureness of touch with which these two women and their little circle are brought to life is, I would guess, likely to be unanimous." –Financial Times“Sort of sneaks up on the reader, providing a deep, careful, haunting exploration of the human personality.” –Elle"Sparkling readability." –Mail on Sunday“Brookner is an artist of an exceptional purity.” –The New York Times“Anita Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight.” –The Washington Post Book World“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“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"Anita Brookner is a novelist of astonishing technical skill, and A Friend from England is a very good book . . . if people who talk of her 'limitations' had themselves one tenth of her scope, ah, what critics they would be." –The Independent (London)

L'autore

Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years spent in Paris, has lived there ever since. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. A Friend from England is her seventh novel.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1400095212
• ISBN 13: 9781400095216
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208