Visitors: The beloved modern classic from the Booker Prize-Winning Author of Hotel du Lac - Couverture souple

Brookner, Anita

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140264256 ISBN 13 : 9780140264258

Editeur : Penguin, 1998

Synopsis

The acclaimed literary novel about family relationships, ageing and generational conflict from the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac

Dorothea May lives a quiet, ordered life, content with the routines that have shaped her world. But her tranquillity is disrupted when her friend Kitty Levinson announces the forthcoming marriage of her granddaughter. What’s more, Kitty, in her usual imperious fashion, expects Dorothea to accommodate the bridegroom's friend, Steve Best.

As the wedding approaches, the scene is set for a highly charged conflict of generations, in which the claims of the young are in stark and selfish contrast to the disabling propriety of the old.

Witty and perceptive, Visitors is a vivid exploration of family relationships, ageing, responsibility and social expectations, a modern classic perfect for readers of Penelope Lively and Helen Garner.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140264256
• ISBN 13: 9780140264258
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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