Brookner Anita
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Strangers
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Brookner Anita
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2010
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PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ
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'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 retired and lives alone in South Kensington. He walks alone and dines alone, taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers. His only acquaintance is a widowed cousin whom he visits on Sundays. Unable to make sense of his solitary nature, and fearing death among strangers, he wonders whether at last he might be ready for companionship. But a chance meeting with an old girlfriend and an encounter in Venice with a recently divorced younger woman compel Sturgis to decide how (and with whom) he will spend the rest of his days...
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 anatoly_24
17 августа 2012
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Hotel Du Lac
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Random House, Inc.
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Автор: Brookner Anita
Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2008
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PDF, 192 страницы, 5.76 МБ
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In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question Why love? It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a psudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to resore her to her senses. But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive.
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zorkuzz
15 июля 2009
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Undue Influence
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Brookner Anita
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2000
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PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ
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Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone. When she meets Martin Gibson, a faded scholar, she becomes inordinately interested. She is even more interested when she meets his wife, a far more spectacular personality. But the unexpected news of this woman's death releases emotions that were not entirely foreseen.
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allkonekt
07 апреля 2009
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