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Providence
Anita Brookner
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Description for Providence
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
Kitty Maule wants to be 'totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful.' Instead, she is clever, hesitant and too patient for her own good. For years, she has been in love with her colleague Maurice Bishop, a charming English lecturer who seems not to notice her feelings. But when there comes a chance to accompany Maurice to France on a study of French cathedrals, Kitty sees an opporunity to be the woman she has always wanted to be as well as at last make the man she wants fall in love with her. But why ... Read more
Kitty Maule wants to be 'totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful.' Instead, she is clever, hesitant and too patient for her own good. For years, she has been in love with her colleague Maurice Bishop, a charming English lecturer who seems not to notice her feelings. But when there comes a chance to accompany Maurice to France on a study of French cathedrals, Kitty sees an opporunity to be the woman she has always wanted to be as well as at last make the man she wants fall in love with her. But why ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fig Tree
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241977767
SKU
V9780241977767
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-15
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 Providence
Beautiful.
Spectator
Thoroughly enjoyable.
Guardian
All is sheer delight.
Daily Telegraph
How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.
Tessa Hadley on 'A Start in Life'
Guardian Summer Reads, 2015
Spectator
Thoroughly enjoyable.
Guardian
All is sheer delight.
Daily Telegraph
How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.
Tessa Hadley on 'A Start in Life'
Guardian Summer Reads, 2015