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  • A Family Romance
    Anita Brookner
    ’Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared.’Paul and Henrietta Manning and their solitary academic daughter Jane have nothing in common with Dolly widow of Henrietta’s brother. Corseted and painted Dolly is a frivolous superficial woman who has little time for those without that inestimable quality - charm. Jane in particular fall...
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  • A Private View
    Anita Brookner
    ’Seated at a caf table in the syrupy warmth of out-of-season Nice he reviewed his life and found it to be alarmingly empty.’George Bland had planned to spend his retirement in leisurely travel and modest entertainment with his friend Putnam. When Putnam dies George is left attempting to impose some purpose on the solitary end of his life. Then Katy Gibb appears as a temporar...
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  • A Closed Eye
    Anita Brookner
    ’Without warning it seemed she had become a married woman.’Naive and undemanding Harriet Lytton expects very little of life and that is what she recieves. Married to a respectable man old enough to be her father Harriet’s only taste of passion comes when she meets Jack Peckham the unruly attractive husband of her friend Tessa.Tessa and Harriet have for many years been bou...
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  • Incidents in the Rue Laugier
    Anita Brookner
    ’I have reached the age when a woman begins to perceive that she is growing into the person whom she least plans to resemble: her mother.’Nadine has always wanted her daughter Maud to be married and off her hands. When the two women are staying at Nadine’s sister’s house near Meaux they become part of a sophisticated wordly group into which neither Maud nor Edward Harrison a...
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  • Altered States
    Anita Brookner
    ’I was foolish enough to think that I was strong enough and cheerful enough by nature to avoid unhappiness. I was not yet old enough to see that I was in error.’Alan Sherwood is a cautious solitary London solicitor who finds himself obsessed by his glamorous cousin Sarah. But Sarah is self-seeking and predatory and their short-lived affair leaves Alan desolate. He finds dist...
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  • Fraud
    Anita Brookner
    ’Oh she’ll turn up all right. Somewhere or other. Trouble is we won’t know where to look.’Slowly almost imperceptibly Anna Durrant’s acquaintances realize that Anna has gone missing. Normally so reliable so helpful she has neglected what duties remain to her after the death of her mother and taken flight. Lawrence Halliday the family doctor trapped in a trying marriage ...
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  • Lewis Percy
    Anita Brookner
    ’The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one things that simply won’t be got rid of.’Destined to be a haunter of libraries Lewis’s cautious progress through life reveals to him only his own shortcomings. Estranged from his wife and daughter he searches for an alternative. This novel pre...
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  • Falling Slowly
    Anita Brookner
    ’She hoped one day to find the image she unconsciously sought without knowing why she sought it something to lift the spirits to transport her on an imaginary journey to give a hint of the transcendence which was so blatantly lacking in her everyday life of words and paper’ Sisters Beatrice and Miriam have each other but they were never close. Beatrice is a pianist a roma...
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  • Undue Influence
    Anita Brookner
    ’People are mysterious. And they do reveal mysterious connections. But sometimes one is merely anxious to alter the script. It was not the first time I had been guilty of a misapprehension’At twenty-nine Claire Pitt is single but not inexperienced. Attracted to Martin Gibson a former academic married to a beautiful manipulative invalid she and her friend Wiggy are drawn dee...
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  • The Next Big Thing
    Anita Brookner
    ’This would soon be a new day all too closely resembling the others the normal days of his present existence in which nothing happened nor could be expected to happen’At seventy-three Herz is facing an increasingly bewildering world. He cannot see his place in it or even work out what to do with his final years. Questions and misunderstandings haunt Herz like old ghosts. Sho...
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  • Falling Slowly
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  • Visitors
    Anita Brookner
    Dorothea May’s tranquility is shattered by Kitty Levinson’s announcement of her granddaughter’s forthcoming marriage. As the wedding approaches the scene is set for a highly charged conflict of generations in which the claims of the young are in stark and selfish contrast to the disabling propriety of the old. VISITORS is a vivid exploration of familial responsibilities and ...
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    23,90 €

  • Family and Friends
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  • Dolly
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  • Fraud
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    14,88 €

  • Providence
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  • A Closed Eye
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    15,75 €

  • Lewis Percy
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  • Latecomers
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