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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: 1st Penguin Edition
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 01 Jun 1995

ISBN 10: 0140236538
ISBN 13: 9780140236538

Author Bio
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, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.