Imprint: Penguin
Published: 01/06/2017
ISBN: 9780241981498
Length: 176 Pages
Dimensions: 181mm x 11mm x 111mm
Weight: 100g
RRP: £9.99
Anita Brookner's first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.'
Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment.
Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships and doomed Parisian love affairs, she wonders if perhaps there might not be a chance for a new start in life . . .
Imprint: Penguin
Published: 01/06/2017
ISBN: 9780241981498
Length: 176 Pages
Dimensions: 181mm x 11mm x 111mm
Weight: 100g
RRP: £9.99
Excellent
Enormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny tragi-comedy
How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.
A delight, amusing, beautifully written.
Enormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny tragi-comedy.
Excellent, brilliantly drawn.