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- Look at Me 375 copies, 9 reviews
- Family and Friends 354 copies, 2 reviews
- A Start in Life 348 copies, 7 reviews
- The Misalliance 324 copies
- A Friend from England 315 copies, 2 reviews
- Latecomers 298 copies, 3 reviews
- Brief Lives 277 copies, 2 reviews
- Fraud 264 copies, 9 reviews
- Undue Influence 259 copies, 4 reviews
- A Closed Eye 258 copies, 5 reviews
- Altered States 256 copies, 4 reviews
- Providence 250 copies, 2 reviews
- Incidents in the Rue Laugier 250 copies, 6 reviews
- The Rules of Engagement 248 copies, 8 reviews
- The Bay of Angels 246 copies, 7 reviews
- Leaving Home 238 copies, 12 reviews
- Lewis Percy (Author) 229 copies, 5 reviews
- A Family Romance 225 copies, 1 review
- Falling Slowly 225 copies, 3 reviews
- Visitors: A Novel 224 copies, 7 reviews
- The Next Big Thing 216 copies, 6 reviews
- Strangers 210 copies, 18 reviews
- A Private View 178 copies
- Romanticism and Its Discontents 55 copies
- Soundings 38 copies
- Watteau 27 copies, 1 review
- Jacques-Louis David 24 copies
- The Stories of Edith Wharton (volume 2) (Editor) 16 copies
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- The Reef (Introduction, some editions) 635 copies, 8 reviews
- The Constant Nymph (Introduction, some editions) 282 copies, 9 reviews
- Troy Chimneys (Introduction, some editions) 145 copies, 7 reviews
- The Stories of Edith Wharton (Introduction, some editions) 49 copies, 1 review
- The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1880 (Foreword, some editions) 12 copies
- Hotel du Lac [1986 film] (Original novel) 8 copies, 1 review
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Anita Brookner has 1 past event. (show) Oakland - The Seated Diesels discuss "Hotel du Lac" by Anita Brookner Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes The Seated Diesels back to the store to discuss Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner on Tuesday, May 28th at 7 pm. Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a pseudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore her to her senses.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.
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Location: Street: 5433 College Ave City: Oakland, Province: California Postal Code: 94618-1502 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
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| Canonical name | | | Legal name | | | Other names | | | Date of birth | | | Date of death | | | Burial location | | | Gender | | | Nationality | | | Country (for map) | | | Birthplace | | | Place of death | | | Places of residence | | | Education | | | Occupations | | | Relationships | | | Organizations | | | Awards and honors | | | Agents | | | Short biography | Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.  | |
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