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A Start in Life
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A Start in Life

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BookPaperback
Ranking1199776inBelletristik
CHF14.90

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Anita Brookner's first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.'

Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment.

Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships and doomed Parisian love affairs, she wonders if perhaps there might not be a chance for a new start in life . . .
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-241-98149-8
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publishing date01/07/2017
SeriesPenguin Essentials
Series no.73
Pages176 pages
LanguageEnglish
Weight102 g
Article no.30442452
CatalogsZeitfracht
Data source no.170160765
Product groupBelletristik
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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. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.