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Misreading Anita Brookner
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Author : Peta Mayer
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool English Texts and St
Release Date : 2020
Misreading Anita Brookner written by Peta Mayer and has been published by Liverpool English Texts and St this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Literary Criticism categories.
Anita Brookner was known for writing boring books about lonely, single women. Misreading Anita Brookner unlocks the mysteries of the Brookner heroine by creating entirely new ways to read six Brookner novels. Drawing on diverse intertextual sources, Peta Mayer illustrates how Brookner's solitary twentieth-century women can also be seen as variations of queer nineteenth-century male artist archetypes.
Misreading Anita Brookner
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Author : Peta Mayer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Misreading Anita Brookner written by Peta Mayer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Gender identity in literature categories.
A Friend From England
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Author : Anita Brookner
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-07-25
A Friend From England 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 2012-07-25 with Fiction categories.
In one of her most delicate and suspenseful novels to date, Anita Brookner brings us an exquisite story of friendship and duty. Rachel Kennedy and Oscar Livingston were not precisely friends or family. Rachel had been acquanted with Oscar for some time, first as her father’s accountant, and then as her own. Part owner of a London bookshop, Rachel is thoroughly independent and somewhat distant, determinedly restrained in her feelings for others, but above all responsible. And it is this trait that leads Oscar and his wife Dorrie to seek out Rachel as a mentor for their twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Heather. Yet when Heather seems poised to make an unsuitable romantic decision, Rachel decides to speak out and intervene, causing an unwitting and devastating insight.
A Private View
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Author : Anita Brookner
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-08-15
A Private View 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 2012-08-15 with Fiction categories.
Brookner explores the complications that arise when one solitary man comes up against a woman who seems determined to invade his solitude. George Bland is an aging bachelor whose existence has been virtually a mirror image of his name--up until now. For into George's life walks Katy Gibb, young, abrasively self-assured, who incites in George the most alarming feelings.
Strangers
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Author : Anita Brookner
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2010-07-13
Strangers 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 2010-07-13 with Fiction categories.
Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner captures the magic and depth of real life with this story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears are universal. Paul Sturgis is resigned to his bachelorhood and the quietude of his London flat. He occasionally pays obliging visits to his nearest living relative, Helena, his cousin’s widow. To avoid having to turn down her Christmas invitation, Paul sets off for a holiday in Venice where he meets Mrs. Vicky Gardner, an intriguing woman in the midst of a divorce. Upon his return to England, a former girlfriend, Sarah, reenters Paul’s world and these two women spark a transformation in Paul, culminating in a shocking decision.
Hotel Du Lac
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Author : Anita Brookner
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-07-25
Hotel Du Lac 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 2012-07-25 with Fiction categories.
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • When romance writer Edith Hope’s life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, she flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore her to her senses. "Brookner's most absorbing novel ... wryly realistic ... graceful and attractive." —Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive. In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?"
Brief Lives
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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.
Leaving Home
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Author : Anita Brookner
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-01-24
Leaving Home 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 2013-01-24 with Fiction categories.
Emma Roberts leaves home for the first time in her twenties, travelling to Paris to study seventeenth-century garden design. There, she meets vivacious Françoise Desnoyers and is quickly drawn into her passionate and complicated world. But Françoise's demands - deceiving her formidable mother over a love affair - leave Emma feeling exposed and vulnerable, and yearning for the safety and comfort of her London home. Yet when an unexpected family tragedy turns that life upside down, Emma comes to realize the impossibility of returning to a home you have already left behind...
Art And Life In The Novels Of Anita Brookner
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Author : Eileen Williams-Wanquet
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Release Date : 2004
Art And Life In The Novels Of Anita Brookner written by Eileen Williams-Wanquet and has been published by Peter Lang Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book treats all of Brookner's twenty-two short novels as one monolithic fiction. The autobiographical element in this controversial author's fiction is taken as a starting point to explore the complex interplay of art and life. Autobiography, as a form of emplotment of life, is the creative matrix governing the whole oeuvre, which is realistically rooted in time and space. The study draws on narrative theory, contemporary theories of fiction and recent feminist and ethical criticism. It shows how Brookner's work combines and opposes both realistic and modernist modes of writing and their philosophical underpinnings. The novels, too often misread as anti-feminist and resolutely pre-modern, appear to be more essentially postmodern than is usually acknowledged, through a heightened awareness of the role played by narrative in constructing our sense of reality and of self. The pervasive intertextuality, habitually ignored or taken to be simply a form of intellectual snobbery, is the key to understanding how the novels tackle questions of moral life as encoded in narrative discourse and fine art. In addressing the questions of how life should have been lived, Brookner's self-reflexive and ironical fiction subversively rewrites the traditional moral codes embodied in romance and which have determined the behaviour of women. Finally, this study examines the function of writing as a performative act and the role played by repetition.
A Family Romance
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Author : Anita Brookner
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2016-05-19
A Family Romance 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.
'Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared.' Paul and Henrietta Manning and their solitary, academic daughter Jane have nothing in common with Dolly, widow of Henrietta's brother. Corseted and painted, Dolly is a frivolous, superficial woman, who has little time for those without that inestimable quality - charm. Jane, in particular, falls into this category, especially after the death of her parents. But Jane has money - and a conscience - and these bind her to Dolly. Through disagreements, disappointments and disapprovals, Jane and Dolly are enmeshed in an uneasy alliance in which history and family create closer ties than friendship ever could.