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Hotel du Lac : A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner) by Anita Brookner (1995, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679759328
ISBN-139780679759324
eBay Product ID (ePID)923105

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Book TitleHotel du Lac : a Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner)
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicContemporary Women, Family Life, General, Literary
Publication Year1995
GenreFiction
AuthorAnita Brookner
Book SeriesVintage Contemporaries Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight6.6 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN84-020641
Reviews"Brookner's most absorbing novel...wryly realistic...graceful and attractive." ?Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review "Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit." ? Newsweek "Distinctive, spellbinding...elegant but passionate, funny but oddly earnest.... Novels like hers are why we read novels." ? Christian Science Monitor "A remarkable novel...Anita Brookner's best." ?Victoria Glendinning, The Sunday Times (London), "Brookner's most absorbing novel ... wryly realistic ... graceful and attractive." --Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review "Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit." -- Newsweek "Distinctive, spellbinding ... elegant but passionate, funny but oddly earnest.... Novels like hers are why we read novels." -- Christian Science Monitor "A remarkable novel ... Anita Brookner's best." -- The Sunday Times (London), "Brookner's most absorbing novel...wryly realistic...graceful and attractive." ?Anne Tyler,The New York Times Book Review "Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit." ?Newsweek "Distinctive, spellbinding...elegant but passionate, funny but oddly earnest.... Novels like hers are why we read novels." ?Christian Science Monitor "A remarkable novel...Anita Brookner's best." ?Victoria Glendinning,The Sunday Times(London)
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal823/.914
SynopsisIn 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 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., BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - When romance writer Edith Hope's life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, she flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore her to her senses. "Brookner's most absorbing novel ... wryly realistic ... graceful and attractive." --Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review 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. 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?", BOOKER PRIZE WINNER * When romance writer Edith Hope's life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, she flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore her to her senses. "Brookner's most absorbing novel ... wryly realistic ... graceful and attractive." --Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review 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. 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?"
LC Classification NumberPR6015.I3

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  • Cover/book very good, story not so much

    Story is not compelling. I have had problems with Booker Prize winners although I keep reading them. Best ones were Sugie Bain and Milkman.

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