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| | 2. |  | Hotel Du Lac
from Vintage
Price: $3.94
Customer Review:
Hotel Du Lac is short book about a woman's escape to a Swiss hotel after something socially difficult has occurred in London. The difficulty is revealed though slightly later in the book.
The heroine, Edith Hope, is a writer of romantic fiction and is very sad person in love with a married man.... more info
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| | 3. |  | Strangers: A Novel
from Random House
Price: $12.99
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Anita Brookner has been my "therapist" for well over the last decade, and I tend to keep this a secret. When a visiting friend has discovered one of her books in my apartment, I am tempted to wrestle it away from them . I believe she does not write for the majority. She is unique. Her work does not... more info
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| | 5. |  | Leaving Home
from Vintage
Price: $4.50
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I could barely stay awake during this novel. Yes, I know Anita Brookner is brilliant. Yes, I know she is a modern Jamesian, and I see and appreciate the parallels. Except that his books never put me to sleep.
The story of lifeless Emma and her attempts to GET a life after living in a stupefying... more info
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| | 6. |  | The Reef (Twentieth-Century Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $5.24
Customer Review:
You could say that "The Reef" has two themes -- that you have to risk great pain to experience great passion, and the questions of infidelity, love and class and how they clash.
It also happens to be the brilliant Edith Wharton at her most contemplative, since the entire dramatic storyline... more info
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| | 7. |  | Red Lights (New York Review Books Classics)
from NYRB Classics
Price: $5.02
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I enjoyed this novel by Simenon. It's a story about the search for authenticity and freedom, and how it involves facing up to one's own pain. The bare and honest prose suits the subject matter extremely well. As I finished reading the book, I was reminded of the work of another favourite writer, the... more info
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| | 9. |  | The Rules of Engagement: A Novel
from Vintage
Price: $0.75
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Ok, so Rules of Engagement is not an action-packed novel; it is moving nonethless. Previous descriptions of Elizabeth and Betsy are accurate, and the reason they deserve Brookner's skilled description and dissection is that so many people, not just women, are just like them. They arrive at middle... more info
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| | 10. |  | Look at Me
from Vintage
Price: $3.87
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If English author Anita Brookner did not exist, we would have to invent her. The finely crafted novels of manners she regularly turns out with Updike-like discipline offer literary-minded women engaging antidotes to the onslaught of pink-jacketed, dumbed-down, "chick-lit" romance novels. "Look... more info
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4.0 / 5.0
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