Hotel du Lac (Paperback, Reissue)

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1984. Exiled to Switzerland by her embarrassed friends, Edith Hope longs to end her cumbersome spinsterhood and engage in genteel romance, possibly with the sardonic Mr Neville. Its tone is more ambiguous than Brookner's earlier novels, and its themes - vain longing for a loving union between two people, an aching for morality and a sense of purpose - are treated with sympathy and intelligence. (Kirkus UK)

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 embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating spinsterhood is renewed ...

General

Imprint:	Penguin Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 1994
Authors:	Anita Brookner
Dimensions:	196 x 127 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	184
Edition:	Reissue
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-014747-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-14-014747-0
Barcode:	9780140147476

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