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| | 2. |  | Red Lights (New York Review Books Classics)
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This book was originally published as a novella entitled "The Hitchhiker," and is included in Simenon's "An American Omnibus," a selection of four of his stories set in America where he lived for a decade, away from the French settings we usually associate with his mysteries. Actually, it's not even... more info
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| | 4. |  | Hotel Du Lac
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I ordered this book because it was the March selection for my book club. Ms. Brookner has a distinctive writing style and a rather clever sense of humour, but the story she tells is age-old and a bit worn -- despite the two major twists and turns she carefully builds up to. It's a story about a... more info
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| | 6. |  | The Reef (Twentieth-Century Classics)
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A beautifully written story in which the two central female characters (Anna Leath and Sophy Viner) are alternate personas who struggle and are confined by the social order of the day. The genteel, older Anna -- whose rich interior life and deep introspection separated her -- as a young girl -- from... more info
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| | 7. |  | Visitors: A Novel
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Dorothea May is a 70-year old widow living in an Edwardian mansion block in London. She enjoys living alone and her social life is limited to her former husband's cousins Kitty and Molly. She enjoys silence because she knows that the end of her life is approaching. She is shy of affectionate... more info
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| | 8. |  | The Rules of Engagement: A Novel
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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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| | 9. |  | Leaving Home
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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.
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| | 10. |  | Fraud
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Even among Anita Brookner's long and turgid row of novels, this one must be one of the most boring. Anna Durant disappears, and no one seems to care. Not that we care either, and at the end of it, one feels "Good riddance." Anna is so turgid, passive and unlikeable that she may well be placed in a... more info
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