Vidas breves cuenta la historia de Fay, de sus discretas alegrías e ilusiones desde que, en los años cuarenta, abandonó su modesta carrera de cantante por un matrimonio muy alejado del romanticismo que predicaban las canciones y pel&i...
«A sus cuarenta años, la doctora Weiss comprendió que la literatura. le había destrozado la vida.» Ruth Weiss es una profesora universitaria. inteligente y solitaria que se ha especializado en los personajes. femeninos...
«A veces pensaba que el tiempo que pasaba urdiendo las tramas de sus novelas había sido una preparación para esto, su aventura final, su fantasía hecha realidad.» La vida de la escritora de novelas románticas Edith...
Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life<
Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life<
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, remember...
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. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER â¢Â When romance writer Edith Hopeâs 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...
'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era'