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Hotel Du Lac
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 3, 1995
Price: $13.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 3, 1995
Price: $13.95
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 >
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The Portrait of a Lady
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2002
Price: $10.95
One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, “affront her destiny.” James began The Portrait of a Lady without a plot or subject, only the slim but provocative notion of a young woman taking control... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2002
Price: $10.95
One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, “affront her destiny.” James began The Portrait of a Lady without a plot or subject, only the slim but provocative notion of a young woman taking control... Read more >
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Strangers
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $26.00
Literary master Anita Brookner’s elegant style is manifest on every page of her brilliant new novel. Beautifully crafted and emotionally evocative, Strangers portrays the magic and depth of real life, telling the rich story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears are universal.
Paul Sturgis is resigned to his... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $26.00
Literary master Anita Brookner’s elegant style is manifest on every page of her brilliant new novel. Beautifully crafted and emotionally evocative, Strangers portrays the magic and depth of real life, telling the rich story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears are universal.
Paul Sturgis is resigned to his... Read more >
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The Rules of Engagement
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $13.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $13.00
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 >
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Making Things Better
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $13.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $13.00
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 >
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Leaving Home
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $13.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $13.95
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 >
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The Debut
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 19, 1990
Price: $15.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 19, 1990
Price: $15.00
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 >
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Providence
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: January 13, 1994
Price: $15.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: January 13, 1994
Price: $15.00
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 >
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Undue Influence
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2001
Price: $13.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2001
Price: $13.95
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 >
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Incidents in the Rue Laugier
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $13.00
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. 240 pp. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $13.00
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. 240 pp. Read more >
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Visitors
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $13.00
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 at... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $13.00
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 at... Read more >
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The Bay of Angels
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $12.00
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 thrilled with her prospective stepfather, Simon Gould, who is not only wealthy, but also kind and generous. Simon’s affection for his... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $12.00
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 thrilled with her prospective stepfather, Simon Gould, who is not only wealthy, but also kind and generous. Simon’s affection for his... Read more >
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A Closed Eye
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 4, 1993
Price: $12.00
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 her... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 4, 1993
Price: $12.00
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 her... Read more >
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Family and Friends
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $15.00
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Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $15.00
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Latecomers
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 19, 1990
Price: $15.00
A novel about the 50-year friendship of two dissimilar German refugees brought over to England as children from Nazi Germany. Their friendship becomes a funny yet touching model for the ways in which human beings come to terms with the tragedy of living. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 19, 1990
Price: $15.00
A novel about the 50-year friendship of two dissimilar German refugees brought over to England as children from Nazi Germany. Their friendship becomes a funny yet touching model for the ways in which human beings come to terms with the tragedy of living. Read more >
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A Misalliance
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $13.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $13.00
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 >
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Altered States
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $12.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $12.00
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 >
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A Friend from England
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $13.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $13.00
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 >
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Brief Lives
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 7, 1992
Price: $13.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 7, 1992
Price: $13.00
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 >
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Dolly
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 15, 1995
Price: $15.00
In her superbly accomplished new novel, Anita Brookner proves that she is our mast profound observer of women's lives, posing questions about feminine identity and desire with a stylishness that conveys an almost sensual pleasure.
From the moment Jane Manning first meets her aunt Dolly, she is both fascinated and appalled. Where... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 15, 1995
Price: $15.00
In her superbly accomplished new novel, Anita Brookner proves that she is our mast profound observer of women's lives, posing questions about feminine identity and desire with a stylishness that conveys an almost sensual pleasure.
From the moment Jane Manning first meets her aunt Dolly, she is both fascinated and appalled. Where... Read more >
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Falling Slowly
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $15.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $15.00
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 >
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Lewis Percy
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 13, 1991
Price: $15.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 13, 1991
Price: $15.95
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 >
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A Private View
Format: Trade Paperback, 252 pages
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $15.00
Brookner explores the complications that arise when one solitary man comes up against a woman who seems determined to invade his solitude. George Bland is an aging bachelor whose existence has been virtually a mirror image of his name--up until now. For into George's life walks Katy Gibb, young, abrasively self-assured... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 252 pages
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $15.00
Brookner explores the complications that arise when one solitary man comes up against a woman who seems determined to invade his solitude. George Bland is an aging bachelor whose existence has been virtually a mirror image of his name--up until now. For into George's life walks Katy Gibb, young, abrasively self-assured... Read more >
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Fraud
Format: Trade Paperback, 268 pages
On Sale: January 13, 1994
Price: $15.95
At the heart of Anita Brookner's new 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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 268 pages
On Sale: January 13, 1994
Price: $15.95
At the heart of Anita Brookner's new 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 >
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