Lewis Percy - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Anita Brookner performs a remarkable leap of imaginative sympathy to give us an acute and almost Jamesian vision of a man torn between the comfortable life of the mind and the alluring--but terrifying--world of the senses.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Anita Brookner 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"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." <p/>-- Phillip Lopate, <p/>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 <p/>"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." <p/>-- San Francisco Chronicle<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Anita Brookner</b> 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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