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Look At Me
Anita Brookner
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Description for Look At Me
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 142.
'Once a thing is known it can never be unknown.' By day Frances Hinton works in a medical library, by night she haunts the room of a West London mansion flat. Everything changes, however, when she is adopted by charming Nick and his dazzling wife Alix. They draw her into their tight circle of friends. Suddenly, Frances' life is full and ripe with new engagements. But too late, Frances realises that she may be only a play thing, to be picked up and discarded once used. And that just one act in defiance of Alix's wishes ... Read more
'Once a thing is known it can never be unknown.' By day Frances Hinton works in a medical library, by night she haunts the room of a West London mansion flat. Everything changes, however, when she is adopted by charming Nick and his dazzling wife Alix. They draw her into their tight circle of friends. Suddenly, Frances' life is full and ripe with new engagements. But too late, Frances realises that she may be only a play thing, to be picked up and discarded once used. And that just one act in defiance of Alix's wishes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fig Tree
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241977774
SKU
9780241977774
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. ... Read more
Reviews for Look At Me
Witty, intelligent and tirelessly perceptive.
Evening Standard
Flawless.
Observer, Books of the Year
Clever and engrossing.
David Lodge, Sunday Times
Bewitching.
The Times
How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.
Tessa Hadley on 'A Start in ... Read more
Evening Standard
Flawless.
Observer, Books of the Year
Clever and engrossing.
David Lodge, Sunday Times
Bewitching.
The Times
How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.
Tessa Hadley on 'A Start in ... Read more