Books By Anita Brookner
List of 5 best books written by Anita Brookner. Check out the booklist.
1. A Start in Life
Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment.
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2. Strangers
‘He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a mere spectator of his own life, with no one to identify him in the barren circumstances of the here and now.’ Paul Sturgis is a retired banker manager who lives alone in a dark little flat. He walks alone and dines alone, seeking out and taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers: the cheerful Australian girl who cuts his hair, the lady at the drycleaners.
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3. Family And Friends
Beginning with a wedding photograph, this story charts the loves and lives of a family and their friends, following each of them through their own struggles, triumphs and sorrows. Anita Brookner is the author of “Brief Lives”, “Lewis Percy”, “Providence”, “A Start in Life” and “Fraud”.
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4. Fraud
Slowly, almost imperceptibly, Anna Durrant’s acquaintances realize that Anna has gone missing. Normally so reliable, so helpful, she has neglected what duties remain to her after the death of her mother and taken flight.
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5. Hotel du Lac
Hotel du Lac is a smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching, and formidably clever. According to “The Times” the judges did well and the book does honour to the prize.
