Hotel Du Lac
by Anita Brookner | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0679759328 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0679759328 Global Overview for this book
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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 own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore 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. (Trade PB)
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. (Trade PB)
Journal Entry 2 by havfaith at Donated To Library Book Sale in Fairbanks, Alaska USA on Monday, January 2, 2006
Released 18 yrs ago (1/2/2006 UTC) at Donated To Library Book Sale in Fairbanks, Alaska USA
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Seriously thinning the bookshelves before my big move this year. This just didn't make the short list of keepers. I hope it finds someone who will enjoy it. =)
Seriously thinning the bookshelves before my big move this year. This just didn't make the short list of keepers. I hope it finds someone who will enjoy it. =)