Brief lives /

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Author / Creator:Brookner, Anita
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
Imprint:New York : Random House, c1990.
Description:260 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Psychological fiction.
Female friendship.
Older women.
Widows.
England.
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1139473
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ISBN:0394585488 : $20.00
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Summary:With this novel, Booker Prize-winning author Anita Brookner confirms her reputation as an unparalleled observer of social nuance and deeply felt longings. Brief Lives chronicles an unlikely friendship: that between the flamboyant, monstrously egocentric Julia and the modest, self-effacing Fay, who is at once fascinated and appalled by Julia's excesses. Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership -- and by a guilty secret -- Julia and Fay develop an intense bond that is nonetheless something less than intimacy, a relationship in which we see our own uneasy compromises, not only with other people, but with life itself. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Physical Description:260 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:0394585488 : $20.00