Hotel Du Lac
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Beneath the muted skies of an off-season Swiss resort, a woman arrives carrying the weight of a social transgression she refuses to name — and Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner's Booker Prize-winning masterpiece, begins its quiet, devastating unravelling. Edith Hope, a successful writer of romantic fiction, has been sent away by her friends following an unspecified scandal, and finds herself adrift among the genteel, faded guests of the Hôtel du Lac, each one a study in loneliness and compromise. What she expects to be a period of exile becomes instead a confrontation with the very illusions she has built her life upon, as a mysterious and compelling fellow guest makes her an offer that cuts to the heart of what a woman may dare to want. Brookner writes with a precision and an irony that is both scalpel-sharp and deeply humane, illuminating the interior lives of women who are, by choice or circumstance, slightly out of step with the world around them. Steeped in the tradition of the European literary novel, Hotel du Lac argues — quietly but insistently — that self-knowledge is both the greatest freedom and the most isolating of burdens. The novel's restrained, luminous prose conceals a fierce intelligence, and its final pages land with the force of a choice that the reader will not soon forget.
Author: Anita Brookner
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Beneath the muted skies of an off-season Swiss resort, a woman arrives carrying the weight of a social transgression she refuses to name — and Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner's Booker Prize-winning masterpiece, begins its quiet, devastating unravelling. Edith Hope, a successful writer of romantic fiction, has been sent away by her friends following an unspecified scandal, and finds herself adrift among the genteel, faded guests of the Hôtel du Lac, each one a study in loneliness and compromise. What she expects to be a period of exile becomes instead a confrontation with the very illusions she has built her life upon, as a mysterious and compelling fellow guest makes her an offer that cuts to the heart of what a woman may dare to want. Brookner writes with a precision and an irony that is both scalpel-sharp and deeply humane, illuminating the interior lives of women who are, by choice or circumstance, slightly out of step with the world around them. Steeped in the tradition of the European literary novel, Hotel du Lac argues — quietly but insistently — that self-knowledge is both the greatest freedom and the most isolating of burdens. The novel's restrained, luminous prose conceals a fierce intelligence, and its final pages land with the force of a choice that the reader will not soon forget.