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Synopsis
In her superbly accomplished new novel, Anita Brookner proves that she is our mast profound observer of women's lives, posing questions about feminine identity and desire with a stylishness that conveys an almost sensual pleasure. From the moment Jane Manning first meets her aunt Dolly, she is both fascinated and appalled. Where Jane is tactful and shy, Dolly is flamboyant and unrepentantly selfish, a connoisseur of fine things, an exploiter of wealthy people. But as the exigencies of family bring Jane and Dolly together, Brookner shows us that we may end up loving people we cannot bring ourselves to like — and that this paradox makes love all the more precious and miraculous.
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About the Author
Novelist and art historian, Dr Anita Brookner, was born in London on 16 July 1928. She studied at King's College, London and at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She spent three years studying in Paris as a postgraduate, and went on to lecture in art at Reading University and the Courtauld Institute, where she specialized in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art. She became the first woman to be named as Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge University in 1967. Her first novel, A Start in Life, was published in 1981. Hotel du Lac (1984), won the Booker Prize for Fiction and was adapted for television in 1986. The Bay of Angels (2001), concerns a single woman coming to terms with a new sense of freedom when her widowed mother re-marries and moves abroad. The Rules of Engagement (2003), her twenty-second novel, is a story about friendship and choices.A Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge, Anita Brookner lives in London. She was made a CBE in 1990. Her most recent non-fiction book is Romanticism and Its Discontents (2000), and her most recent novel is Strangers (2009). In 2011 the novella At the Hairdressers was published as an e-book.
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A novel of feelings, A FAMILY ROMANCE describes in fascinating detail a young, protected, but liberated, English woman's growing appreciation of her Aunt Dolly, a woman from another time. Shaw's genteel, English dialect (with such lovely, soft "r's") reflects well the novel's subdued, confessional, often sad and solitary tone. Shaw's voice is pleasantly smooth and deep--almost a contralto. She paces and dramatizes the reading to fit the temperament of the characters, never getting lost in the beautifully intricate sentences and doing especially well with the imperious and complex Aunt Dolly. Though the relatively few male voices are pitched too low, this is a worthy production. P.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherCharnwood (Large Print)
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0708988377
- ISBN 13 9780708988374
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
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