Bibliograph

Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner

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Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Hotel du Lac

Oclc number

37607351

Responsibility statement

Anita Brookner

Series statement

Vintage contemporaries

Summary

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER When romance writer Edith Hope's life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, she flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore her to her senses. "Brookner's most absorbing novel ... wryly realistic ... graceful and attractive." -Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review. But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive. In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?"

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