Brief Lives by Anita Brookner
Fay, celebrated ex-singer, meets the theatrical Julia and they begin a relationship of mutual distrust. It is a friendship sustained through loneliness, desperation and the morbid attraction of opposite characteristics as both women remain out of step with the time in which they live.
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 | 9780140145380 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140145389 |
| Title | Brief Lives |
| Author | Anita Brookner |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1991-07-25 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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