Visitors - Softcover

Brookner, Anita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140264256 ISBN 13: 9780140264258

Verlag: Penguin, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

RO60077084. VISITORS. 1998. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. légèrement pliée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 236 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

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Dorothea May's tranquility is shattered by Kitty Levinson's announcement of her granddaughter's forthcoming marriage. As the wedding approaches, the scene is set for a highly charged conflict of generations, in which the claims of the young are in stark and selfish contrast to the disabling propriety of the old. VISITORS is a vivid exploration of familial responsibilities and the expectations that perpetually threaten to overwhelm them.

Nota de la solapa:

'At seventy she understood how closely she was being subsumed into the natural processes, feared the dark, welcomed the light.'
Since her husband's death fifteen years ago, Dorothea May has become a recluse - if not happy in, at least accepting, her solitary condition. But when a relative of her husband declares her intention to marry in London, Dorothea finds herself cajoled into providing a room for the best man, Steve. Suddenly, she finds her home invaded by a bright, brash young wanderer, both threatening and puzzling. Yet could Steve's presence and the coming wedding change Dorothea in ways she could never anticipate?

'Seductively deceptive' Daily Mail

'Like Virginia Woolf, Brookner's aim is not to draw characters in the round, but to reveal psychological reality in the deep' The Times

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• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0140264256
• ISBN 13: 9780140264258
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240