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Providence

With this novel, Booker Prize-winning author Anita Brookner confirms her reputation as an unparalleled observer of social nuance and deeply felt longings. Brief Lives chronicles an unlikely friendship: that between the flamboyant, monstrously egocentric Julia and the modest, self-effacing Fay, who is at once fascinated and appalled by Julia's excesses. Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership -- and by a guilty secret -- Julia and Fay develop an intense bond that is nonetheless something less than intimacy, a relationship in which we see our own uneasy compromises, not only with other people, but with life itself.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Julia et moi

The extraordinary Anita Brookner 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 -- so when she is prevailed upon to take in a young man in town for a family wedding, her carefully constructed, solitary world is thrown into disarray. As the wedding approaches, old family secrets surface and conflicts erupt between the generations. Dorothea's fragile façade of peaceful acceptance is pierced, forcing her to face in a new way both her past and her future.
Exquisite writing, richly drawn characters, and penetrating perceptions about people are featured in another superb novel from this acclaimed and award-winning writer.

Visitors

Regardez-moi

A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered.

Une amie d'angleterre

a soixante-douze ans, Paul Sturgis voit la vieillesse le rattraper inexorablement. Une grisaille generale, plus metaphysique que physiologique, s est imprimee sur sa vie depuis que la banque ou il a fait carriere l a mis a une retraite anticipee. Son appartement, jadis symbole de sa reussite et de son emancipation, est devenu le reflet de ses echecs personnels. Pour y echapper, Sturgis remplit ses journees de deambulations dans Londres. a Venise, ou il a fui la solitude des fetes de Noel, il rencontre Vicky, recemment divorcee. Plus tard, il retrouve par hasard une femme aimee jadis, Sarah. Leur presence a toutes deux sert de catalyseur a la question qui, desormais, obsede Paul: decider comment, et avec qui, passer le reste de ses jours. Un texte subtil et finement soigne, une ecriture juste, pour evoquer un sujet rarement aborde dans la litterature: que faire lorsque, l age venant, le sens des mots - amour -, - travail -, - maison - change a ce point que l on se sent veritablement en terre etrangere ?Anita Brookner est nee a Londres en 1928 ou, hormis quelques annees passees a Paris, elle a toujours vecu. Historienne d art et ecrivain, elle est l auteur de vingt-trois romans, dont Hotel du Lac, qui lui a valu le Booker Prize en 1984. Subtile observatrice des gens et des situations, Anita Brookner a souvent ete comparee a Jane Austen ou Henry James. Tous ses ouvrages ont ete traduits en francais."

�trangers

After twenty years of marriage Blanche Vernon is alone; abandoned by her husband Bertie for a childishly demanding computer expert named Mousie. While Blanche finds this turn of events baffling, she feels that Bertie must have left her because of her overly sensible demeanor. Yet many of their mutual friends disagree. In fact, Blanche has come to be regarded as undeniably eccentric--making elliptical remarks that no one knows how to read, and chatting at great length about characters in fiction. She resolutely fills her unwanted hours with activities, maintaining her excellent appearance, drinking increasingly more wine, and, in an attempt to turn her energy to good works, becoming severely enmeshed in the life of a disordered young family.

Mésalliance

Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.


The latecomers are Hartmann and Fibich, brought over to England as children to escape Nazi Germany, now living close to each other in London in their 60s, and still friends. Yet they could not be more different, each having adopted different strategies to reconcile themselves with their past and to cope with an uncertain world.

Latecomers

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Anita Brookner, née le 16 juillet 1928 à Herne Hill, dans le Grand Londres, et morte le 10 mars 2016, est une romancière britannique. Observatrice des gens et des situations, elle décrit, de manière nostalgique et intimiste, des personnages en demi-teintes, et la manière dont ils ont raté leur vie.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Brookner

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