A Private View

Brookner, Anita

ISBN 10: 0679434445 / ISBN 13: 9780679434443

Published by Random House, 1994

About this Item

Very good condition. Former library book; spine tight, pages clean.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Private View
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679434445
• ISBN 13: 9780679434443
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Modest and reliable George Bland faces retirement, surprised to find himself suddenly alone and uncertain. But his solitude is brusquely overturned when the invasive and mercurial Katy Gibb appears. Katy, by turns sulky girl and sultry woman, offers George a last chance for a adventure, an abandonment of discretion and responsibility. In the contest of wills that follows, George discovers his true nature, his enormous capacity for compromise and self-deception. The result is a novel rich in understanding of human complexity and of the desire to take charge of one's own destiny.

About the Author

Anita Brookner is the winner of the prestigious 1984 Booker Prize for Hotel du Lac. She is the author of many highly praised novels including Fraud, Dolly and Brief Lives. Her newest novel, Incidents in the Rue Laugier, will be published this winter by Random House of Canada.