| A Closed Eye Contributor(s): Brookner, Anita (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679743405 ISBN-13: 9780679743408 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1993 Annotation: In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening. In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Romance - Historical - 20th Century |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92056358 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.22" W x 8.01" (0.52 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening. In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives. |