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'Anita Brookner has proved herself so fine a novelist that she deserves to be judged always in a class of her own.' - SELINA HASTINGS, DAILY TELEGRAPH. Harriet grows up ignored and unguided, shrouded in an innocence that her friendship with Tessa, and, later, her marriage to Freddie Lytton, do nothing to dispel. Freddie is faintly disapproving of Tessa and her irresponsible, attractive husband, Jack, and yet they are all ineluctably bound together, through habit, through their daughters, and through Harriet's unspoken strength of feeling for Jack. The sad early death of Tessa, however, casts a harsh light on the cruel dissatisfactions Harriet has borne.
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"Anita Brookner has staked out a distinctive territory...and made it clear that she is one of the finest novelists of her generation."-- The New York Times
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"If Henry James were around, the only writer he'd be reading with complete approval would be Anita Brookner. A Closed Eye is [a] marvel of ease and clarity, and precision." -- The New York Times Book Review
"[Brookner's] prose is famously graceful, her understanding of human nature always keen .... A Closed Eye exhibits all of her elegance, subtlety of perception, and wistful tenderness" -- Newsday
"Stiletto-sharp powers of observation...[Brookner] offers amusement akin to the slightly illicit pleasure of sitting down to lunch with a clever and malicious gossip. Indiscretions will be revealed, unhappiness and tragedy hinted at, and you will be...hungry for more." -- Chicago Tribune
Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening.
In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives.
In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives.
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- PublisherCharnwood
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0708987672
- ISBN 13 9780708987674
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages336
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