A Start in Life

Name: A Start in Life
Author: Anita Brookner

by Anita Brookner

Woman's first steps into independence reveal loneliness and tentative hope

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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.

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Altered StatesWoman rebuilds her identity after loss through careful observation and restraint