A Start in Life
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:1st Jun '17
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The first novel from the author of the Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
Anita Brookner's first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
'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: 9780241981498
Dimensions: 181mm x 111mm x 11mm
Weight: 100g
176 pages