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A Family Romance
Anita Brookner
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Description for A Family Romance
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 158.
'Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared.' Paul and Henrietta Manning and their solitary, academic daughter Jane have nothing in common with Dolly, widow of Henrietta's brother. Corseted and painted, Dolly is a frivolous, superficial woman, who has little time for those without that inestimable quality - charm. Jane, in particular, falls into this category, especially after the death of her parents. But Jane has money - and a conscience - and these bind her to Dolly. Through disagreements, disappointments and disapprovals, Jane and Dolly ... Read more
'Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared.' Paul and Henrietta Manning and their solitary, academic daughter Jane have nothing in common with Dolly, widow of Henrietta's brother. Corseted and painted, Dolly is a frivolous, superficial woman, who has little time for those without that inestimable quality - charm. Jane, in particular, falls into this category, especially after the death of her parents. But Jane has money - and a conscience - and these bind her to Dolly. Through disagreements, disappointments and disapprovals, Jane and Dolly ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241979426
SKU
V9780241979426
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About Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. ... Read more
Reviews for A Family Romance
Compelling . . . some classic Brookner quality stays in the mind; questions hover, polite but uncomfortable, long after the final page.
Times Literary Supplement
This small history unfolds slowly, with delicious wit or bitter pathos, and finally with a marvellous, lingering human resonance.
Sunday Express
This is vintage Brookner: all exquisite understatement, acute observation and ... Read more
Times Literary Supplement
This small history unfolds slowly, with delicious wit or bitter pathos, and finally with a marvellous, lingering human resonance.
Sunday Express
This is vintage Brookner: all exquisite understatement, acute observation and ... Read more