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Author : Anita Brookner
language : en
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Release Date : 1990
Brief Lives written by Anita Brookner and has been published by Jonathan Cape this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Engelse fiksie categories.
Chronicles the relationship between two women--Julia, the glamorous, manipulative ex-cabaret star, and the timid, modest Faye--whose husbands are business associates, in a study of the fragility and resilience of friendship.
Brief Lives Vol 1
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Author : John Aubrey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
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Author : Anita Brookner
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-08-01
Brief Lives written by Anita Brookner and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with Fiction categories.
With this novel, Booker Prize-winning author Anita Brookner confirms her reputation as an unparalleled observer of social nuance and deeply felt longings. Brief Lives chronicles an unlikely friendship: that between the flamboyant, monstrously egocentric Julia and the modest, self-effacing Fay, who is at once fascinated and appalled by Julia's excesses. Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership -- and by a guilty secret -- Julia and Fay develop an intense bond that is nonetheless something less than intimacy, a relationship in which we see our own uneasy compromises, not only with other people, but with life itself.
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Author : John Aubrey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
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Author : Anita Brookner
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2016-05-19
Brief Lives written by Anita Brookner and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-19 with Fiction categories.
'I never liked her, nor did she like me; strange, then, how we managed to keep up a sort of friendship for so long.' Fay Langdon has relinquished her singing career to marry Owen, a highly successful solicitor. At one of their dinner parties Fay meets the glamorous, self-obsessed Julia and is destined to join the handful of acolytes who provide Julia with ammunition for her merciless scorn and disapprobation. As the years pass and Fay and Julia's lives grow empty of purpose, they are drawn together by their fear of age and isolation. Yet a mutual mistrust continues to exist between them until Fay is driven to one last heroic act.
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Author : Chris Price
language : en
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-01
Brief Lives written by Chris Price and has been published by Auckland University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Brief Livesis an eccentric collection of biographical anecdotes and fictional vignettes in which famous figures such as Goethe, Petrarch and Antonin Artaud rub shoulders with impecunious aristocrats, actors and art historians as well as a range of fictional characters caught amid the daily chaos of their lives. Here a dead man recounts his experiences as a Jesus impersonator. A wife reflects on the unhappiness of holidays. A doctor conducts altitude experiments on prisoners. Lott loses his mother's ashes in Amsterdam, and Nietzsche dances naked round a stove in Turin. These small, curious pieces deliver the reader on an A-Z journey towards the brilliant long essay 'Variable Stars', which takes in the French poets Mallarme and Villiers, as well as Jonathan Franzen, Janet Frame and Nigel Cox. A meditation on mortality and the tasks of recording, collection and recollection we undertake to stave it off, Brief Livesis a genre-crossing work that makes a plea for what historian Simon Schama has called 'the eloquence of peculiarity'.
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Author : John Aubrey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
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Author : John Aubrey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
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Author : W. F. Deedes
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2013-03-28
Brief Lives written by W. F. Deedes and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this eclectic selection of biographical sketches Bill Deedes remembers some of the key figures of the twentieth century. Political heavyweights such as Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Anthony Eden are reassessed and re-evalued, while record breakers such as Sir Edmund Hillary and Roger Bannister are shown to be far more than just their achievements. Further afield, W. F. Deedes ruminates on the chaotic and shady world of Imelda Marcos, the dignity and determination of anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman and the controversial leadership of Ian Smith in Rhodesia. But there are lighter portraits too. Noel Coward, with his useful advice on trains, Mary Whitehouse’s inadvertent demonstration of pornography and Malcolm Muggeridge’s half-hearted suicide attempt all feature in this delightful compendium. Like his previous books, Dear Bill and At War With Waugh, Brief Lives is an affectionate, perceptive and anecdotal book, bursting with life, humour and wit.
Brief Lives Vol 2
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Author : John Aubrey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
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