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A Start in Life

Anita Brookner author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:2nd Jun '16

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'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.'

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.

Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships and doomed Parisian love affairs, she wonders if perhaps there might not be a chance for a new start in life . . .

Excellent * Sunday Times *
Enormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny tragi-comedy * Financial Times *
How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit. -- Tessa Hadley * Guardian Summer Reads, 2015 *
A delight, amusing, beautifully written. * The Times *
Enormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny tragi-comedy. * Financial Times *
Excellent, brilliantly drawn. * Sunday Times *

ISBN: 9780241977750

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 11mm

Weight: 131g

176 pages