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Brief Lives Paperback - 1992
by Brookner, Anita
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The latest novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac chronicles an unlikely friendship between two very different women thrust together by their husbands' business partnership--and by a guilty secret. "Anita Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight".--The Washington Post Book World.
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Details
- Title Brief Lives
- Author Brookner, Anita
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Vintage Ed
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New York: Vintage, 1992, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1992-04-07
- Bookseller's Inventory # 019092
- ISBN 9780679737339 / 0679737332
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects England, Psychological fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91050735
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the jacket flap
With this novel, Booker Prize-winning author Anita Brookner confirms her reputation as an unparalleled observer of social nuance and deeply felt longings. Brief Lives chronicles an unlikely friendship: that between the flamboyant, monstrously egocentric Julia and the modest, self-effacing Fay, who is at once fascinated and appalled by Julia's excesses. Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership -- and by a guilty secret -- Julia and Fay develop an intense bond that is nonetheless something less than intimacy, a relationship in which we see our own uneasy compromises, not only with other people, but with life itself.