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Providence

By Anita Brookner

By Anita Brookner

By Anita Brookner

By Anita Brookner

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Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Paperback $15.00

Jan 13, 1994 | ISBN 9780679738145

Ebook $8.99

Aug 08, 2012 | ISBN 9780307826213

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    About Providence

    Kitty Maule longs to be "totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful." She is instead clever, reticent, self-possessed, and striking. For years. Kitty has been tactfully courting her colleague Maurice Bishop, a detached, elegant English professor. Now, running out of patience, Kitty’s amorous pursuit takes her from rancorous academic committee rooms and lecture halls to French cathedrals and Parisian rooming houses, from sittings with her dress-making grandmother to seances with a grandmotherly psychic. Touching, funny, and stylistically breathtaking, Providence is a brightly polished gem of romantic comedy.

    About Providence

    Kitty Maule longs to be "totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful." She is instead clever, reticent, self-possessed, and striking. For years. Kitty has been tactfully courting her colleague Maurice Bishop, a detached, elegant English professor. Now, running out of patience, Kitty’s amorous pursuit takes her from rancorous academic committee rooms and lecture halls to French cathedrals and Parisian rooming houses, from sittings with her dress-making grandmother to seances with a grandmotherly psychic. Touching, funny, and stylistically breathtaking, Providence is a brightly polished gem of romantic comedy.

    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 | $15.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 13, 1994 | 192 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9780679738145

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 08, 2012 | 192 Pages | ISBN 9780307826213

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    Praise

    "Providence recounts, with elegance and precision, the story of a woman’s efforts to create a new life for herself … Brookner has proved herself a master."– The New York Times

    "Ambitious and disturbing … uncommonly deft, witty and serious." — The New York Times Book Review

    "Anita Brookner’s themes — experience, nationality, faith, innocence and betrayal — evoke the pleasures of reading Henry James. [Providence is] an intelligent and moving novel." — Francine Prose

    "[A] perfectly observed and quietly witty novel."– Washington Post

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