Altered States

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77325-2 (0-679-77325-8)

Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and walking shoes, a man thinks he may be looking at the woman for whom he ruined his life many years earlier. Alan Sherwood, a quiet English solicitor, remembers back to a time when he... Read more >

The Bay of Angels

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72760-3 (0-375-72760-4)

“If Henry James were around, the only writer he’d be reading with complete approval would be Anita Brookner.”—New York Times Book Review


Despite growing up with a widowed and reclusive mother, young Zoë Cunningham retains an unshakable faith in storybook happy endings. When her mother, Anne, finally decides to remarry, Zoë is... Read more >

Brief Lives

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 7, 1992
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73733-9 (0-679-73733-2)

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... Read more >

A Closed Eye

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 1993
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74340-8 (0-679-74340-5)

In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening. In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes... Read more >

The Debut

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 19, 1990
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72712-5 (0-679-72712-4)

Since childhood Ruth Weiss has been escaping from life into books, and from the hothouse attentions of her tyrannical and eccentric parents into the gentler warmth of lovers and friends. Now Dr. Weiss, at forty, a quiet scholar devoted to the study of Balzac, is convinced that her life has been... Read more >

Falling Slowly

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70424-6 (0-375-70424-8)

In Falling Slowly, Anita Brookner brilliantly evokes the origins, nature, and consequences of human isolation. As middle age settles upon the Sharpe sisters, regret over chances not taken casts a shadow over their contented existence. Beatrice, a talented if uninspired pianist, gives up performing, a decision motivated by stiffening joints and... Read more >

Fraud

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 268 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 13, 1994
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74308-8 (0-679-74308-1)

At the heart of Anita Brookner's novel lies a double mystery: What has happened to Anna Durrant, a solitary woman of a certain age who has disappeared from her London flat? And why has it taken four months for anyone to notice? As Brookner reconstructs Anna's life and character through the... Read more >

A Friend from England

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9521-6 (1-4000-9521-2)

In one of her most delicate and suspenseful novels to date, Anita Brookner brings us an exquisite story of friendship and duty. Rachel Kennedy and Oscar Livingston were not precisely friends or family. Rachel had been acquanted with Oscar for some time, first as her father’s accountant, and then as her... Read more >

Hotel Du Lac

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 3, 1995
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75932-4 (0-679-75932-8)

In 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 psudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her... Read more >

Incidents in the Rue Laugier

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76512-7 (0-679-76512-3)

Maud Gonthier yearns for an escape from the cocoon of the bourgeois modesty. The splendid, caddish David Tyler appears to offer one. In this stylish, deeply knowing novel by the author of Hotel du Lac, Maud's seduction creates a chemistry of longing, sensuality, and betrayal—with a surprising climax. Read more >

Latecomers

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 19, 1990
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72668-5 (0-679-72668-3)

In Latecomers the author of the bestselling Hotel Du Lac extends her range to produce a glowing masterpiece about the ambiguous pleasures of friendship and domesticity. Hartmann and Fibich are "latecomers" to England, brought over as children from Nazi Germany. No two men could be more dissimilar: Hartmann is an expansive... Read more >

Leaving Home

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9565-0 (1-4000-9565-4)

At twenty-six, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realization that if she is ever to become truly independent, she must leave her comfortable London flat and venture into the wider world. This entails not only breaking free from a claustrophobic relationship with her mother, but also shedding her inherited tendency toward... Read more >

Lewis Percy

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 1991
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72944-0 (0-679-72944-5)

Anita Brookner is justly famous for her elegant, almost Jamesian character studies of women poised on the threshold of life. But in Lewis Percy, she performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying... Read more >

Look at Me

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73813-8 (0-679-73813-4)

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Making Things Better

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3106-1 (1-4000-3106-0)

Facing life alone at an advanced age, Julius Herz cannot shake the sense that he should be elsewhere, doing other things. Walking through bustling streets that seem increasingly alien to him, he’s confronted by life’s pressing questions with an urgency he has never known before: what do we owe the people... Read more >

A Misalliance

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9522-3 (1-4000-9522-0)

After twenty years of marriage Blanche Vernon is alone; abandoned by her husband Bertie for a childishly demanding computer expert named Mousie. While Blanche finds this turn of events baffling, she feels that Bertie must have left her because of her overly sensible demeanor. Yet many of their mutual friends disagree... Read more >

Providence

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 13, 1994
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73814-5 (0-679-73814-2)

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... Read more >

The Rules of Engagement
A Novel
Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7530-0 (1-4000-7530-0)

Elizabeth and Betsy had been school friends in 1950s London. Elizabeth, prudent and introspective, values social propriety. Betsy, raised by a spinster aunt, is open, trusting, and desperate for affection. After growing up and going their separate ways, the two women reconnect later in life. Elizabeth has married kind but tedious... Read more >

Strangers

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47260-1 (0-307-47260-4)

Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner captures the magic and depth of real life with this story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears are universal.

Paul Sturgis is resigned to his bachelorhood and the quietude of his London flat. He occasionally pays obliging visits to his nearest living relative, Helena... Read more >

Undue Influence

Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 9, 2001
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70734-6 (0-375-70734-4)

In Undue Influence, acclaimed novelist Anita Brookner proves once again that even in the most closely circumscribed of lives, hearts can venture into unknown-and potentially explosive-territory.

Claire Pitt is nothing if not a practical young woman, living a life in contemporary London that is to all appearances placid, orderly and consciously lacking... Read more >

Visitors
A Novel
Written by Anita Brookner

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-78147-9 (0-679-78147-1)

The extraordinary Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," gives us a brilliant novel about age and awakening. In Visitors, Brookner explores what happens when a woman's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth.

Dorothea May is most... Read more >

The Devil's Footprints

Written by John Burnside

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38582-6 (0-307-38582-5)

A novel of mysterious beauty, The Devil's Footprints explores the elemental forces of everyday life: love, fear, grief, and the hope of redemption.

Michael Gardiner has lived in Coldhaven all his life yet still feels like an outsider. Married but distant from his wife, he discovers that a school friend, Moira Birnie... Read more >

The Glister

Written by John Burnside

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45533-8 (0-307-45533-5)

Acclaimed author John Burnside delivers a profound, page-turning novel about innocence, evil, morality, and the dark corners of the human psyche.

Mysterious illnesses affect the inhabitants of the post-industrial village of Innertown, and a pervasive sense of malaise hangs everywhere. So when teenage boys disappear into the poisoned woods surrounding the... Read more >

Angels & Insects
Two Novellas
Written by A.S. Byatt

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 29, 1994
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75134-2 (0-679-75134-3)

In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in Possession: the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. Angels and Insects is "delicate and confidently ironic... Byatt perfectly blends laughter and sympathy [with] extraordinary... Read more >

Babel Tower

Written by A.S. Byatt

Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 24, 1997
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73680-6 (0-679-73680-8)

At the heart of Babel Tower are two law cases, twin strands of the Establishment's web, that shape the story: a painful divorce and custody suit and the prosecution of an "obscene" book. Frederica, the independent young heroine, is involved in both. She startled her intellectual circle of friends by marrying... Read more >