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Anita Brookner
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A Closed Eye |
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English |
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Paperback |
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272 |
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1993-01-04 |
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0679743405 |
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Vintage |
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0.55 pounds |
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0.61 x 5.23 x 7.97 inches |
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In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening.
In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives.
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chris (Japan) (2012/04/29):
Brookner triumphs again with this superb portrait of protagonist Harriet Lytton. Harriet, a birthmarked only child, escapes genteel poverty when she marries Freddie, her father's affluent wartime friend. In typical Brookner fashion, Harriet's sheltered existence and unawakened passions contrast sharply with her friend Tessa's short and reckless life. Harriet dotes on beautiful, spoiled offspring Imogen; while Lizzie, Tessa's plain and neglected daughter, stands silently by. Even Harriet's adulterous fantasies about Jack, Tessa's renegade husband, fail to give her fulfillment or prompt any decisive action to change the emotional status quo. Alone at the end, Harriet sits in the "empty room" of her life floating somewhere between life and death. With scalpel-like prose, Brookner cuts through the veneer of a life viewed through a "closed eye" and expertly exposes its secret pain, compromises, and betrayals. Recommended. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 11/1/91.
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