A Private View by Anita Brookner
Modest and reliable throughout his life, George Bland faces retirement with uncertainty, an uncertainnty compounded by the death of his friend, Putnam. However his life will alter dramatically with the arrival of the invasive and mercenary Katy Gibb.
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 | 9780140236538 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140236538 |
| Title | A Private View |
| Author | Anita Brookner |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1995-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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