Brief lives /
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Author / Creator: | Brookner, Anita |
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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 |
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. |
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Physical Description: | 260 p. ; 22 cm. |
ISBN: | 0394585488 : $20.00 |