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Visitors by Anita Brookner
Visitors by Anita Brookner. 1997 Random House, First U.S. edition, 242 pages. Brookner was an art historian and professor who published her first novel at the age of fifty-three. According to her NYT obituary, Brookner was "a British author of lean, elegiac and stylistically polished novels who was once labeled the 'mistress of gloom' for her depiction of bleak and disappointed lives, usually of women." In a Kirkus review for Visitors, "In another quietly brilliant gem, the incomparably subtle Brookner... puts soft, revealing touches on the face of loneliness as only the elderly know it."
Condition: VG, some foxing on text block
"But this was England: somewhere in the atmosphere was a memory of damp."
Visitors by Anita Brookner. 1997 Random House, First U.S. edition, 242 pages. Brookner was an art historian and professor who published her first novel at the age of fifty-three. According to her NYT obituary, Brookner was "a British author of lean, elegiac and stylistically polished novels who was once labeled the 'mistress of gloom' for her depiction of bleak and disappointed lives, usually of women." In a Kirkus review for Visitors, "In another quietly brilliant gem, the incomparably subtle Brookner... puts soft, revealing touches on the face of loneliness as only the elderly know it."
Condition: VG, some foxing on text block
"But this was England: somewhere in the atmosphere was a memory of damp."