| Brief Lives Contributor(s): Brookner, Anita (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679737332 ISBN-13: 9780679737339 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1992 Annotation: With this novel, Booker Prize-winning author Anita Brookner confirms her reputation as an unparalleled observer of social nuance and deeply felt longings. Brief Lives chronicles an unlikely friendship: that between the flamboyant, monstrously egocentric Julia and the modest, self-effacing Fay, who is at once fascinated and appalled by Julia's excesses. Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership -- and by a guilty secret -- Julia and Fay develop an intense bond that is nonetheless something less than intimacy, a relationship in which we see our own uneasy compromises, not only with other people, but with life itself. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91050735 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.70 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |