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A Start in Life

A Start in Life

by Anita Brookner (Author)

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    Paperback 2016

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Synopsis

'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.' Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment. Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships and doomed Parisian love affairs, she wonders if perhaps there might not be a chance for a new start in life ...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 02 Jun 2016
ISBN 10: 0241977754
ISBN 13: 9780241977750
Book Overview: Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.'

Media Reviews
Excellent * Sunday Times *
Enormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny tragi-comedy * Financial Times *
How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit. -- Tessa Hadley * Guardian Summer Reads, 2015 *
A delight, amusing, beautifully written. * The Times *
Enormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny tragi-comedy. * Financial Times *
Excellent, brilliantly drawn. * Sunday Times *
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.