A MISALLIANCE - Hardcover

Brookner, Anita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394553403 ISBN 13: 9780394553405

Publisher: Pantheon, 1987

Synopsis

Recently divorced Blanche Vernon, in her loneliness, turns to other lives, good works and uplifting pastimes, while her friends hold the general opinion that she has recently become insupportably eccentric

About this title

From the Publisher:

By the author of Hotel du Lac. "A tribute to [Brookner's] formidable gifts as a psychologist of the wounded woman's heart."--New York Times

From the Inside Flap:

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. In fact, Blanche has come to be regarded as undeniably eccentric--making elliptical remarks that no one knows how to read, and chatting at great length about characters in fiction. She resolutely fills her unwanted hours with activities, maintaining her excellent appearance, drinking increasingly more wine, and, in an attempt to turn her energy to good works, becoming severely enmeshed in the life of a disordered young family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0394553403
• ISBN 13: 9780394553405
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 191