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| Hotel Du Lac (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • When romance writer Edith Hope’s life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, she flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore her to her senses."Brookner's most absorbing novel ... wryly realistic ... graceful and attractive." —Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Women's Fiction | | |
| Dolly (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner In her superbly accomplished novel, Anita Brookner proves that she is our most 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... Today's Bargain Price: $6.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| The Rules of Engagement: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner Elizabeth and Betsy had been school friends in 1950s London. Elizabeth, prudent and introspective, values social propriety. Betsy, raised by a spinster aunt, is open, trusting, and desperate for affection. After growing up and going their separate ways, the two women reconnect later in life. Elizabeth has married kind but tedious Digby... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| At the Hairdresser's (Penguin Specials) by Anita Brookner Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is a poignant novella from Anita Brookner.'I rather hope I shall die at the hairdresser's, for they are bound to know what to do. At least that is what I tell myself.'Solitude... Today's Bargain Price: $2.49 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Romance; All Women's Fiction | | |
| The Debut by Anita Brookner An “almost flawless novel” ( People ) about a quiet scholar who is convinced that her life has been ruined by literature and that she must make a new start in life. Since childhood, Ruth Weiss had been escaping from life into books, and from the attentions of her eccentric parents into the gentler warmth and company of friends and... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Women's Fiction | | |
| Latecomers (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner A novel about the 50-year friendship of two dissimilar German refugees brought over to England as children from Nazi Germany. Their friendship becomes a funny yet touching model for the ways in which human beings come to terms with the tragedy of living. Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Fraud (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner At the heart of Anita Brookner's new novel lies a double mystery: What has happened to Anna Durrant, a solitary woman of a certain age who has disappeared from her London flat? And why has it taken four months for anyone to notice? As Brookner reconstructs Anna's life and character through the eyes of her acquaintances, she gives us a... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Look at Me (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered. Today's Bargain Price: $6.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Romance | | |
| Brief Lives (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner With this novel, Booker Prize-winning author Anita Brookner confirms her reputation as an unparalleled observer of social nuance and deeply felt longings. Brief Lives chronicles an unlikely friendship: that between the flamboyant, monstrously egocentric Julia and the modest, self-effacing Fay, who is at once fascinated and appalled by... Today's Bargain Price: $6.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| A Misalliance (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner After twenty years of marriage Blanche Vernon is alone; abandoned by her husband Bertie for a childishly demanding computer expert named Mousie. While Blanche finds this turn of events baffling, she feels that Bertie must have left her because of her overly sensible demeanor. Yet many of their mutual friends disagree. In fact, Blanche... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Falling Slowly (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner The brilliant Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," now gives us a stunning story of two sisters and the strange patterns of identity and love. The Sharpe sisters have lived a careful and contemplative existence. Miriam is a translator of French texts and Beatrice a... Today's Bargain Price: $4.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Strangers (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner captures the magic and depth of real life with this story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears are universal. Paul Sturgis is resigned to his bachelorhood and the quietude of his London flat. He occasionally pays obliging visits to his nearest living relative, Helena, his... Today's Bargain Price: $8.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Providence (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner Kitty Maule longs to be "totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful." She is instead clever, reticent, self-possessed, and striking. For years. Kitty has been tactfully courting her colleague Maurice Bishop, a detached, elegant English professor. Now, running out of patience, Kitty's amorous pursuit takes... Today's Bargain Price: $8.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Making Things Better (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner Facing life alone at an advanced age, Julius Herz cannot shake the sense that he should be elsewhere, doing other things. Walking through bustling streets that seem increasingly alien to him, he’s confronted by life’s pressing questions with an urgency he has never known before: what do we owe the people in our lives? How should we fill... Today's Bargain Price: $5.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction | | |
| Lewis Percy (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner Anita Brookner is justly famous for her elegant, almost Jamesian character studies of women poised on the threshold of life. But in Lewis Percy, she performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world... Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| A Friend from England (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner In one of her most delicate and suspenseful novels to date, Anita Brookner brings us an exquisite story of friendship and duty. Rachel Kennedy and Oscar Livingston were not precisely friends or family. Rachel had been acquanted with Oscar for some time, first as her father’s accountant, and then as her own. Part owner of a London... Today's Bargain Price: $4.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Women's Fiction | | |
| Incidents in the Rue Laugier (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner Maud Gonthier yearns for an escape from the cocoon of the bourgeois modesty. The splendid, caddish David Tyler appears to offer one. In this stylish, deeply knowing novel by the author of Hotel du Lac, Maud's seduction creates a chemistry of longing, sensuality, and betrayal--with a surprising climax. 240 pp. Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Romance; All Sex & Erotica; All Women's Fiction | | |
| Leaving Home (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner At twenty-six, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realization that if she is ever to become truly independent, she must leave her comfortable London flat and venture into the wider world. This entails not only breaking free from a claustrophobic relationship with her mother, but also shedding her inherited tendency toward melancholy. Once... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Family and Friends (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner In an ambitious departure from her usual form, Anita Brookner expands her canvas in Family and Friends to create a richly textured novel about the life of a wealthy Jewish family in London, focusing on the generation that came to maturity between the two World Wars. Presiding over the Dorn household is the formidable Sofka, an... Today's Bargain Price: $8.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| A Closed Eye (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening. In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Visitors: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner The extraordinary Anita Brookner gives us a brilliant novel about age and awakening. In Visitors , Brookner explores what happens when a woman's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth. Dorothea May is most at ease in the company of strangers -- so when she is prevailed upon to take in a young man in town for... Today's Bargain Price: $4.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Altered States (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and walking shoes, a man thinks he may be looking at the woman for whom he ruined his life many years earlier. Alan Sherwood, a quiet English solicitor, remembers back to a time when he stepped briefly out of character to indulge in a liaison... Today's Bargain Price: $4.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Sex & Erotica | | |
| The Bay of Angels: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner Despite growing up with a widowed and reclusive mother, young Zoë Cunningham retains an unshakable faith in storybook happy endings. When her mother, Anne, finally decides to remarry, Zoë is thrilled with her prospective stepfather, Simon Gould, who is not only wealthy, but also kind and generous. Simon’s affection for his new family... Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Undue Influence (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner In Undue Influence , acclaimed novelist Anita Brookner proves once again that even in the most closely circumscribed of lives, hearts can venture into unknown-and potentially explosive-territory. Claire Pitt is nothing if not a practical young woman, living a life in contemporary London that is to all appearances placid, orderly and... Today's Bargain Price: $5.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| A Private View (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner Brookner explores the complications that arise when one solitary man comes up against a woman who seems determined to invade his solitude. George Bland is an aging bachelor whose existence has been virtually a mirror image of his name--up until now. For into George's life walks Katy Gibb, young, abrasively self-assured, who incites in... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
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