Anita Brookner

Look at Me

Art historian learns to see herself through others' gazes and judgments

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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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