Lewis Percy

by Anita Brookner

Overview

Anita Brookner is justly famous for her elegant, almost Jamesian character studies of women poised on the threshold of life. But in Lewis Percy, she performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307826190
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/25/2012
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years in Paris, has lived there ever since. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988.

Editorial Reviews

May be [Brookner's] most finely wrought novel…A brilliant portrait gallery.
—Washington Post Book World

Anne Tyler

"Each new Brookner novel...guarantees the pleasures of a mature intelligence, felicitous language, quirky humor, intensely believable characters, bitter-sweet karma and shapely narrative....A brilliantly executed novel."

— Phillip Lopate,

The New York Times Book Review"Anita Brookner never ceases to surprise. In this sly and delectable fiction...an artist has extended her range."-Boston Globe

"Confirms Anita Brookner's reputation as a novelist....There is a solemn felicity, a classical sense of fairness inherent in Lewis Percy. This, with the author's sane humor, told in her elegant, lucid prose, combines to make something truly remarkable."

— San Francisco Chronicle

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