Hotel du Lac book by Anita Brookner
By Anita BrooknerIn the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a pseudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to resore her to her senses.
But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive.
Book details
- Hardcover
- 184 pages
- English
- 0394542150
- 9780394542157
About Anita Brookner
anita brookner cbe (16 july 1928 – 10 march 2016) was an english novelist and art historian. she was slade professor of fine art at the university of Read More about Anita Brookner
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