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Brief Lives

By Anita Brookner

By Anita Brookner

By Anita Brookner

By Anita Brookner

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Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Paperback $15.95

Apr 07, 1992 | ISBN 9780679737339

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Aug 01, 2012 | ISBN 9780307826251

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    About Brief Lives

    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.

    About Brief Lives

    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.

    About Anita Brookner

    Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years in Paris, was a lifelong Londoner. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. She is the author of twenty-seven books,… More about Anita Brookner

    About Anita Brookner

    Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years in Paris, was a lifelong Londoner. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. She is the author of twenty-seven books,… More about Anita Brookner

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 07, 1992 | 272 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679737339

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 01, 2012 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9780307826251

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    Praise

    "Anita Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight." — Washington Post Book World"Brookner [is] a writer of great skill and precision. Passages of brilliant writing abound, hard-won insights that startle us with Brookner’s clarity and succinct intelligence." — Michael Dorris, Los Angeles Times Book Review

    "Compelling…Brookner’s vision of human behavior is scrupulously honest, without ever being cruel… a gem of revelation."

    — Hilma Wolitzer, Chicago Tribune

    "Accomplished…compassionate, meditative and intelligent. Empathy informs all of Anita Brookner’s novels, [and] Brief Lives is yet another instance of her large and knowing heart."

    — The New York Times Book Review

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