| A Friend from England Contributor(s): Brookner, Anita (Author) |
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ISBN: 1400095212 ISBN-13: 9781400095216 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2005 Annotation: In one of her most delicate and suspenseful novels to date, Anita Brookner brings us an exquisite story of friendship and duty. Rachel Kennedy and Oscar Livingston were not precisely friends or family. Rachel had been acquanted with Oscar for some time, first as her father's accountant, and then as her own. Part owner of a London bookshop, Rachel is thoroughly independent and somewhat distant, determinedly restrained in her feelings for others, but above all responsible. And it is this trait that leads Oscar and his wife Dorrie to seek out Rachel as a mentor for their twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Heather. Yet when Heather seems poised to make an unsuitable romantic decision, Rachel decides to speak out and intervene, causing an unwitting and devastating insight. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005277873 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.26" W x 8.12" (0.49 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In one of her most delicate and suspenseful novels to date, Anita Brookner brings us an exquisite story of friendship and duty. Rachel Kennedy and Oscar Livingston were not precisely friends or family. Rachel had been acquanted with Oscar for some time, first as her father s accountant, and then as her own. Part owner of a London bookshop, Rachel is thoroughly independent and somewhat distant, determinedly restrained in her feelings for others, but above all responsible. And it is this trait that leads Oscar and his wife Dorrie to seek out Rachel as a mentor for their twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Heather. Yet when Heather seems poised to make an unsuitable romantic decision, Rachel decides to speak out and intervene, causing an unwitting and devastating insight." |