Visitors
A Novel
The extraordinary Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as one of the finest novelists of her generation, gives us a brilliant novel about age and awakening. In Visitors, Brookner explores what happens when a woman's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth.Dorothea May is most at ease in the company of strangers. When her late husband's relatives prevail on her to take in a young man for the week before an unexpected family wedding, Thea's carefully constructed, solitary world is thrown into disarray. As the wedding approaches, old family secrets surface and conflicts erupt between the generations, trappin…
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- ISBN: 978-0-679-78147-9
- EAN: 9780679781479
- Produktnummer: 19334549
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Über den Autor
Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years in Paris, has lived there ever since. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988.
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