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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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How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit. -- Tessa Hadley on 'A Start in Life' * Guardian Summer Reads, 2015 *
Dazzling. * Spectator *
Works so brilliantly. * Daily Telegraph *
Brookner has a merciless comic gift. * Sunday Times *

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/2/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780241977781, 978-0241977781
      ISBN10: 0241977789

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit. -- Tessa Hadley on 'A Start in Life' * Guardian Summer Reads, 2015 *
      Dazzling. * Spectator *
      Works so brilliantly. * Daily Telegraph *
      Brookner has a merciless comic gift. * Sunday Times *

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