The Rules of Engagement - Hardcover

Brookner, Anita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670914363 ISBN 13: 9780670914364

Verlag: Viking, 2003

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This is Brookner's 22nd novel, and, as one might expect, it deals splendidly with human relationships. Elizabeth and Betsy are old friends dating back to their schooldays. Elizabeth's mother disapproved of their friendship, moaning at her daughter, "Can't you find someone more suitable?" Meaning someone richer, more fortunate, more useful. But Elizabeth is her own person, and she goes off and marries an older man, Digby, who is rather dull and boring. Elizabeth has no children, and embarks on an affair while Betsy seems to find romance in Paris. It is a clever, entertaining novel, beautifully observed.

Reseña del editor:

'I have come to believe that there can be no adequate preparation for the sadness that comes at the end, the sheer regret that one's life is finished, that one's failures remain indelible and one's successes illusory.'

Elizabeth and Betsy are oldschool friends. Born in 1948 and unready for the sixties, they had high hopes of the lives they would lead, even though their circumstances were so different.

When they meet again in their thirties, Elizabeth, married to the safe, older Digby isrelieving the boredom of a cosy but childless marriage with an affair. Betsy seems to have found real romance in Paris. Are their lives taking off, or are they just making more of the wrong choices without even realising it?

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• Verlag: Viking
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0670914363
• ISBN 13: 9780670914364
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256