Leaving Home
by Anita Brookner
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0786285575
- ISBN 13
- 9780786285570
- Seller
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Sykesville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Thorndike Press, 2006-05-10. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover, Large Print, illustrated boards, no DJ as issued. 2006, ISBN 0786285575. Small ink x mark to rear free endpaper. From the Booker Prize winning author, a Publishers Weekly Starred Review: "Brookner's narrators often combine a Jamesian inner life with a deceptively blank external one, and Emma Roberts is a paragon of that type. An English doctoral student in the late 1970s whose restraint matches her choice of studiesâclassical garden designâEmma grew up isolated with a widowed, reclusive mother. 'We loved each other greatly,' she says, 'yet so exclusive was that love that it was experienced more like anguish.' ... This isn't an Austen novel, and even an instant of unalloyed pleasure would seem glib after several pages of Emma's sere circumspection. That circumspection makes the novel very powerful, even as Emma's passivity is sometimes so extreme it feels concocted only to justify a few more elegant sentences. But Emma is among the most delicately rendered heroines in recent fiction." 260 pages.
Synopsis
Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years in Paris, has lived there ever since. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. Leaving Home is her twenty-third novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bayside Books of Maryland, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000725
- Title
- Leaving Home
- Author
- Anita Brookner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0786285575
- ISBN 13
- 9780786285570
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press
- Date Published
- 2006-05-10
- Keywords
- Loneliness Emotions Romance Paris London Landscaping Gardens Design
- X weight
- 38 oz
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About the Seller
Bayside Books of Maryland, IOBA
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Sykesville, Maryland
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