Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER * In the novel that established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new way to frame the eternal question, "Why love?""Brookner's most absorbing novel ... wryly realistic ... graceful and attractive." --Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review
When middle-aged romance writer Edith Hope's life begins to resemble the melodramatic plots of her own novels, her friends banish her to Switzerland, where they hope the luxurious calm of the Hotel du Lac will restore her to her senses. But instead of contritely contemplating her mistakes, Edith spends her time keenly observing her eccentric fellow guests and writing unsent letters to the married lover she is supposed to be trying to forget. Before long, despite her determination to stay quietly on the sidelines, Edith attracts the attention of a worldly man who believes that they are uniquely situated to solve each other's problems.
Beautifully observed and witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780679759324 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679759328 |
| Title | Hotel Du Lac |
| Author | Anita Brookner |
| Series | Vintage Contemporaries |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1995-10-03 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Prizes | Winner of Booker Prize 1984 |
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