Anita Brookner
British novelist whose introspective fiction chronicles the lives of solitary, cultivated women with quiet precision. Hotel du Lac won the Booker Prize in 1984. Her twenty-four novels form a meditation on loneliness, disappointment, and intellectual life.
Works
- Hotel du LacWoman on Swiss lake alone awaits reconciliation with her past and future
- Incidents in the Rue LaugierParisian widow reconstructs her life through solitary observation and restraint
- Look at MeArt historian learns to see herself through others' gazes and judgments
- A Start in LifeWoman's first steps into independence reveal loneliness and tentative hope
- Altered StatesWoman rebuilds her identity after loss through careful observation and restraint