Anita Brookner Libri

Edith Hope è una scrittrice di narrativa romantica che cerca di mantenere la sua personalità schiva e fiduciosa. Vive in modo responsabile, evitando di vantarsi del suo successo, e molti dei suoi amici notano la sua somiglianza con Virginia Woolf. Tuttavia, si ritrova in un temporaneo esilio all'Hotel du Lac, un albergo svizzero dove i clienti benestanti cercano di rivivere un'epoca più nobile del turismo. A un passo dal matrimonio con Geoffrey Long, un uomo cortese, Edith scappa, un gesto che per i suoi amici è da ragazzina sconsiderata, ma per lei è inevitabile. Autrice di storie d'amore e amante di un uomo sposato, Edith comprende che la ricerca di una grande passione può lasciare soli e incapaci di scegliere altre strade. La sua fuga e il soggiorno nell'austero albergo non sono solo una punizione, ma anche un'opportunità per riconquistare la libertà e osservare gli altri con l'occhio di una scrittrice. All'Hotel du Lac incontra personaggi interessanti, come la signora Pusey e sua figlia Jennifer, che offrono un contatto con una realtà a lei estranea, e il signor Neville, un uomo elegante e misterioso. Questo romanzo, vincitore del Booker Prize nel 1984, presenta Edith come uno dei personaggi più indimenticabili della narrativa contemporanea, un'eroina degna di Henry James o Jane Austen.

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 committee rooms and lecture halls to French cathedrals and Parisian rooming houses, from sittings with her dress-making grandmother to seances with a grandmotherly psychic. Touching, funny, and stylistically breathtaking, Providence is a brightly polished gem of romantic comedy.

A novel about human relationships, focusing, unusually for Brookner, on two male characters. They met at school and forty years later can no more think of living apart than of divorcing their wives. This book deals with their gradual coming to terms with the emotional gaps in their lives.

A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered.

Modest and reliable throughout his life, George Bland faces retirement with uncertainty, an uncertainnty compounded by the death of his friend, Putnam. However his life will alter dramatically with the arrival of the invasive and mercenary Katy Gibb.

This text contains a male protagonist in the form of a young solicitor, his mother, a loveless marriage, and holidays on the Swiss border.

Mild and self-effacing, Paul and Henrietta Manning are ill-prepared for the interuptions into their lives of Dolly, widow of Henrietta's brother Hugo. Dolly's ways are idiosyncratic, yet she is an object of fascination and dread to her relatives, especially her niece, Jane.

From the author of HOTEL DU LAC and ALTERED STATES, a novel which explores the themes of loneliness, friendship, fate and opportunity, in which a woman, forced into early retirement, longs to be rescued by the ideal man.

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 world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him.

In an ambitious departure from her usual form, Anita Brookner expands her canvas in FAMILY AND FRIENDS to create a richly textured novel about the life of a wealthy Jewish family in London, centering upon the generation that came to maturity between the two World Wars. "Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight".--WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD.