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A Start in Life
Anita Brookner
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Description for A Start in Life
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 205 x 18. Weight in Grams: 134.
'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 . . .
'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 . . .
Product Details
Publisher
Fig Tree
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241977750
SKU
V9780241977750
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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 Start in Life
Excellent, brilliantly drawn.
Sunday Times
Enormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny tragi-comedy.
Financial Times
A delight, amusing, beautifully written.
The Times
How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.
Tessa Hadley
Guardian Summer Reads, 2015
Enormously sophisticated, ... Read more
Sunday Times
Enormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny tragi-comedy.
Financial Times
A delight, amusing, beautifully written.
The Times
How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.
Tessa Hadley
Guardian Summer Reads, 2015
Enormously sophisticated, ... Read more