Anita Brookner
Undue Influence
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'People are mysterious. And they do reveal mysterious connections. But sometimes one is merely anxious to alter the script. It was not the first time I had been guilty of a misapprehension'At twenty-nine, Claire Pitt is single but not inexperienced. Attracted to Martin Gibson, a former academic married to a beautiful, manipulative invalid, she and her friend Wiggy are drawn deeper into his world. When Martin is widowed, Claire sees a possible future for herself and begins to make plans. But Martin is both more and less than he appears, as Claire is about to discover . . .'All of Brookner's novels are great. But this is one of the best' Indepe…
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'People are mysterious. And they do reveal mysterious connections. But sometimes one is merely anxious to alter the script. It was not the first time I had been guilty of a misapprehension'At twenty-nine, Claire Pitt is single but not inexperienced. Attracted to Martin Gibson, a former academic married to a beautiful, manipulative invalid, she and her friend Wiggy are drawn deeper into his world. When Martin is widowed, Claire sees a possible future for herself and begins to make plans. But Martin is both more and less than he appears, as Claire is about to discover . . .'All of Brookner's novels are great. But this is one of the best' Independent on Sunday
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-241-97782-8
- EAN: 9780241977828
- Produktnummer: 20013765
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H19.9 cm x B13.1 cm x D1.8 cm 167 g
- Gewicht: 167
Über den Autor
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.
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