Falling Slowly
In Falling Slowly, Anita Brookner brilliantly evokes the origins, nature, and consequences of human isolation. As middle age settles upon the Sharpe sisters, regret over chances not taken casts a shadow over their contented existence. Beatrice, a talented if uninspired pianist, gives up performing, a decision motivated by stiffening joints and the sudden realization that her art has never brought her someone to love. Miriam, usually calm and lucid, slides headlong into an affair with a charming, handsome--and very married--man. And as each woman awakens to the urgency of her loneliness, illness threatens to sever them both from the one happin…
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- ISBN: 978-0-375-70424-6
- EAN: 9780375704246
- Produktnummer: 19340917
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Über den Autor
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.
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