Making Things Better (also published under the title 'The Next Big Thing')

Brookner, Anita

ISBN 10: 1400031060 / ISBN 13: 9781400031061

Published by Vintage, 2004

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Things Better (also published under the title 'The Next Big Thing')
• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1400031060
• ISBN 13: 9781400031061
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 245 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Facing life alone at an advanced age, Julius Herz cannot shake the sense that he should be elsewhere, doing other things. Walking through bustling streets that seem increasingly alien to him, he’s confronted by life’s pressing questions with an urgency he has never known before: what do we owe the people in our lives? How should we fill our days? Feeling fortified despite the growing ache in his heart, Herz finds himself also blessed with a stirring sense of exhilaration. After a lifetime of deferring to others’ stronger wills, he faces a future of possibility, the only constraint the deeply ingrained habits of his mind. Profound and deeply resonant, Making Things Better explores the quandaries of aging, longing, and self-discovery with transfixing precision and spellbinding acuity.

About the Author

Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years in Paris, has lived there ever since. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988.