Falling Slowly by Anita Brookner
A piano accompanist forced into early retirement, Beatrice's taste in books reveals a romantic desire to be rescued by her ideal man. Unlike Beatrice, Miriam has known love: both the kind based on desire and the kind based on esteem. This novel weaves a tale of loneliness and friendship.
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 | 9780670881918 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670881910 |
| Title | Falling Slowly |
| Author | Anita Brookner |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1998-07-02 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1985 |
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