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Modest, reliable and decorous throughout his life, George Bland faces retirement with unease, an unease compounded by the early death of his friend Putnam, condemning him to unwonted solitude. Yet this, too, is overturned by the arrival of the invasive and mercenary Katy Gibb.
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"Devastating...Her tending to language, as we've come to expect, is loving, cutting and exact." --The Montreal Gazette
"A narrative of subtleties and nuances, reminiscent of the narratives of the later Henry James." --The Toronto Star
"Elegant...Her poetry of forlornness is stronger and stranger than ever. Brightness falls from the air everywhere in this novel." --Hermione Lee, The New Yorker
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"A narrative of subtleties and nuances, reminiscent of the narratives of the later Henry James." --The Toronto Star
"Elegant...Her poetry of forlornness is stronger and stranger than ever. Brightness falls from the air everywhere in this novel." --Hermione Lee, The New Yorker
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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. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 022403684X
- ISBN 13 9780224036849
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages220
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