By maybe a quarter or a third of the way through it, it still hasn't started moving. She's showing the inside of the mind of this narrator, Paul Sturgis, and how empty his life is, including his inner life. So when this woman, 20 years his junior, shows up in his life, she provides all this men...
A disturbing book that was at the same time a pleasure to read. We begin when Edith Hope commences her stay at the Hotel du Lac, a luxury hotel, prideful of the fact that it is the place people go when they need a deep rest. Brookner's prose perfectly encapsulates the mood as Edith stands befor...
As I continue to read Anita Brookner's books, I find increased admiration and awe for her skill and precision in her writing. Her language use is elegant and the depth of her character development is succinct and dramatic."Incedents in the Rue Laugier" is an absorbing study of a group of people, ...
If you have not read Anita Brookner this is a wonderful novel with which to start. I daresay you will not look back as you traverse some of her many (too numerous to count) novels of romance and the social difficulties of young women - and sometimes not so young - in love. In this one the protag...
Miss Brookner has a very good hand at writing; it is clear from each paragraph that she can apply language in very detailed and orderly ways. This book is much like her others, focusing on loneliness, other's happiness over one's own, trying to move on or somewhere else. She has very mundane acti...
Un po' sotto tono per gli standard della Brookner, forse perché contrariamente al suo solito questa è una specie di saga familiare (normalmente i romanzi della Brookner si concentrano in modo ossessivo sulla protagonista).La famiglia Dorn è di origine tedesca ed ebraica (credo, e dico credo perch...
I wasn't going to review this one, but having finished listening a few minutes ago, I've changed my mind.A reviewer has stated that if the protagonist, Fay, were to attend a costume party, she'd attend as a Question Mark by default. I agree; her life so identified with being a wife (and widow), t...
This is my fourth Brookner and it won’t be my last. There’s been no logic to my selection, just whatever one happens to come my way, and it’s pretty easy to see why those who like her really like her but also why her detractors accuse her of simply writing the same book over and over. Her palate ...
I have become rather a fan of Anita Brookner although of the 24 novels she has written this is only the eleventh I have read. I love the mood she creates with her writing, the lonely suburbia, damp evening London streets, the senses of quiet isolation and life slipping by unremarked. Her books ar...
It's become a cliche to call Anita Brookner the modern Henry James, but with her latest novel, she's outdone the fusty old master. Some future genius will have to be called the modern Anita Brookner."The Bay of Angels," her 20th elegant novel, perfects an examination of loneliness that threatened...
"He wondered if it were healthy, or desirable, to be thinking of the past just now when he should be thinking of the future." (p 209)George Bland has lead a quiet, safe, correct life. On retirement his is abandoned by his long-time friend, Michael Putnam, through Putnam's sudden death. Bland has ...