Hotel du Lac
$21.25
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2023
Summary
Anita Brookner’s best-known and bestselling Man Booker Prize-winning novel - now a Penguin Essential
The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era.
Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrass…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241996560 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241996562 |
| Author: | Anita Brookner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 114g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 111mm x 181mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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Critics Review
Miss Brookner’s most absorbing novel … graceful and attractive * New York Times *
Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding * Hilary Mantel, Guardian *
Hotel du Lac is written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart
The last great novelist of the 20th century * Daily Telegraph *
A classic … a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now * Spectator *
A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever * The Times *
She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction * Literary Review *
Anita Brookner
Born in south London in 1928 to a Polish immigrant family, Anita Brookner was an acclaimed novelist and art historian. She trained as an art historian, holding a professorship at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris before joining the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she worked until her retirement in 1988.
Brookner published her debut novel, A Start in Life, in 1981. She went on to write twenty-four novels, with her twenty-fourth, Strangers, published in 2009. In 1984, she achieved significant recognition when she won the Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac.
In addition to her prolific fiction writing, Anita Brookner authored several volumes of art criticism. In 1990, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She passed away in 2016 at the age of 87.
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