The Bay Of Angels by Anita Brookner

The Bay Of Angels by Anita Brookner

‘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

Tough, cogent writing, without sentimentality, and its polish never masks its realism... Brookner reveals herself as a European novelist and a major one.' -- Helen Dunmore * The Times *
With a steelier grip than almost any other writer, Brookner always reaches out and pulls you in. Her talent for immersing you in the pinched, emotional life of her characters is unparalleled... Her understanding of female loneliness is heart-clenching. -- Julie Myerson * Mail on Sunday *
Achieved with the subtle brilliance for which Booker Prize-winning Brookner has received such acclaim... It is highly unlikely you will read a finer piece of literature this year * Scotland on Sunday *
What a relief it is to read this beautifully crafted prose * Daily Express *
One of Brookner's most subtle, original and emotionally resonant works... She subverts expectations again * Sunday Telegraph *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780241977835
ISBN 10	0241977835
Titel	The Bay Of Angels
Autor	Anita Brookner
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2016-06-02
Seitenanzahl	224
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.