Hotel du Lac
by Brookner, Anita
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Hardcover. 1st Edition. ,Condition: V.G+ . Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: V.G.+ D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Blue cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Slight yellowing to pages due to age. Previous owners bookplate.
Overall a very nice copy of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. 1984
Synopsis
This 1984 winner of the Man Booker prize tells the story of the protagonist Edith Hope, a romance novelist on a "curious interlude in her life". She has been forced into temporary exile in the stolid Swiss hotel of the book's title after a romantic transgression which was so unforgivable that her friends, embarrassed and outraged, ordered her away to have a good long think. Set in contemporary 19th century, the prose is unusual and beautiful; an elegant classic the reader won’t want to put down. Anita Brookner, born July 1928, is an English novelist and art historian and is considered one of the great contemporary writers of English fiction. Brookner is highly regarded as a stylist. Her fiction, which has been duly influenced by her own life experiences, explores themes of isolation, emotional loss and difficulties and typically depicts intellectual middle-class women.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lansdowne Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 222
- Title
- Hotel du Lac
- Author
- Brookner, Anita
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Guild / Book Club Associates by arrangement with Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1984-01-01
- Pages
- 184pp.
- Weight
- 0.88 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Edition; Fiction; collectible;
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