The Bay Of Angels: From the Booker Prize-Winning Author of Hotel Du Lac - Couverture souple

Brookner, Anita

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241977835 ISBN 13 : 9780241977835

Editeur : Penguin, 2016

Synopsis

‘One of her very best’ Spectator
‘Subtle, original and emotionally resonant’ Sunday Telegraph

'It was at Millie's party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives . . .'

Zoë is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice. She is enchanted by the visits to France that follow, but they come to an abrupt end when Simon suffers a bad fall. Finding themselves thrust into uncertainty and surrounded by well-meaning strangers, Zoë and her mother must learn how - and how not - to trust appearances . . .

‘Brookner in all her wisdom, eloquence and power’ Spectator

‘Anita Brookner has proved herself so fine a novelist that she deserves to be judged always in a class of her own’ Selina Hastings

‘Each book is a prayer bead on a string, and each prayer is a secular, circumspect prayer, a prayer and a protest and a charm against encroaching night’ Hilary Mantel, praise for Anita Brookner

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 after holding a post as a professor at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris, she 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. In 1984, she won the Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner published a number of volumes of art criticism. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990. She died in 2016 at the age of 87.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241977835
• ISBN 13: 9780241977835
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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