Brief Lives
, by BROOKNER, ANITANote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780679737339 | 0679737332
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/7/1992
With this novel, Booker Prize-winning author Anita Brookner confirms her reputation as an unparalleled observer of social nuance and deeply felt longings. Brief Lives chronicles an unlikely friendship: that between the flamboyant, monstrously egocentric Julia and the modest, self-effacing Fay, who is at once fascinated and appalled by Julia's excesses. Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership -- and by a guilty secret -- Julia and Fay develop an intense bond that is nonetheless something less than intimacy, a relationship in which we see our own uneasy compromises, not only with other people, but with life itself. From the Trade Paperback edition.