Falling Slowly (Paperback, 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed)

In Falling Slowly, Anita Brookner brilliantly evokes the origins, nature, and consequences of human isolation. As middle age settles upon the Sharpe sisters, regret over chances not taken casts a shadow over their contented existence. Beatrice, a talented if uninspired pianist, gives up performing, a decision motivated by stiffening joints and the sudden realization that her art has never brought her someone to love. Miriam, usually calm and lucid, slides headlong into an affair with a charming, handsome--and very married--man. And as each woman awakens to the urgency of her loneliness, illness threatens to sever them both from the one happiness they have grown to count on: each other. Painfully wise, the Sharpe sisters embody the conflicting yearnings Jane Austen delineated in Sense and Sensibility.

General

Imprint:	Random House
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Release date:	2000
First published:	2000
Authors:	Anita Brookner
Dimensions:	203 x 131 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	240
Edition:	1st Vintage Contemporaries ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-375-70424-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-375-70424-8
Barcode:	9780375704246

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