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20%OFFAnita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac - 9780140147476 - V9780140147476
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Hotel Du Lac

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Description for Hotel Du Lac Paperback. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 7. Weight in Grams: 144.

Winner of the Booker Prize

'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era'

Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140147476
SKU
V9780140147476
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99-99

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 Hotel Du Lac
Miss Brookner's most absorbing novel . . . graceful and attractive
New York Times
Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding
Hilary Mantel, Guardian
Hotel du Lac is written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart
Observer
The last great novelist of the 20th century ... Read more

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