Anita Brookner

The Bay Of Angels (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'Within a few weeks, it seemed, the fixed points of my existence had revealed themselves to be untrustworthy.'

Zoë is delighted when her widowed mother maries Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice. However, the long enchanted visits to France she enjoys come to an abrupt end when Simon suffers a bad fall. Zoë and her mother, finding themselves surounded by well-meaning strangers, must learn how and how not to trust appearances . . .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780241965528
• Artikelnr.: 37816769

Autorenporträt

Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.

Rezensionen

Tough, cogent writing, without sentimentality, and its polish never masks its realism. ... Brookner reveals herself as a European novelist and a major one.' Helen Dunmore The Times