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- Hotel du Lac 2,089 copies, 67 reviews
- Look at Me 414 copies, 10 reviews
- A Start in Life 395 copies, 11 reviews
- Family and Friends 386 copies, 3 reviews
- The Misalliance 350 copies, 2 reviews
- A Friend from England 326 copies, 3 reviews
- Latecomers 315 copies, 3 reviews
- Brief Lives 290 copies, 2 reviews
- Fraud 276 copies, 9 reviews
- Undue Influence 273 copies, 4 reviews
- Providence 273 copies, 3 reviews
- A Closed Eye 269 copies, 5 reviews
- The Bay of Angels 263 copies, 8 reviews
- Altered States 263 copies, 3 reviews
- The Rules of Engagement 261 copies, 9 reviews
- Incidents in the Rue Laugier 254 copies, 6 reviews
- Leaving Home 251 copies, 12 reviews
- A Family Romance 240 copies, 1 review
- Visitors: A Novel 238 copies, 7 reviews
- Lewis Percy 238 copies, 5 reviews
- Falling Slowly 235 copies, 3 reviews
- The Next Big Thing 234 copies, 6 reviews
- Strangers 221 copies, 19 reviews
- A Private View 194 copies, 1 review
- Romanticism and Its Discontents 57 copies
- Soundings 42 copies
- Watteau 32 copies, 1 review
- Jacques-Louis David 26 copies
- The Stories of Edith Wharton (volume 1) (Editor) 18 copies
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- The Genius of the Future: Diderot, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Zola, the… 15 copies
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- Troy Chimneys (Introduction, some editions) 148 copies, 7 reviews
- The Stories of Edith Wharton (Introduction, some editions) 53 copies, 1 review
- The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1880 (Foreword, some editions) 12 copies
- Hotel du Lac [1986 film] (Original novel) 9 copies, 1 review
- Gauguin (Translator, some editions) 1 copy
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Anita Brookner has 1 past event. (show) Oakland - The Seated Diesels discuss "Hotel du Lac" by Anita Brookner Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes The Seated Diesels back to the store to discuss Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner on Tuesday, May 28th at 7 pm. Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a pseudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore her to her senses.But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure.
This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!
Location: Street: 5433 College Ave City: Oakland, Province: California Postal Code: 94618-1502 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
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| Canonical name | | | Legal name | | | Other names | | | Date of birth | | | Date of death | | | Burial location | | | Gender | | | Nationality | | | Country (for map) | | | Birthplace | | | Place of death | | | Places of residence | | | Education | | | Occupations | | | Relationships | | | Organizations | | | Awards and honors | | | Agents | | | Short biography | 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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