This is an auction for UNDUE INFLUENCE by Anita Brookner.

"As she has done many times before, but never with more acuity or grace, Brookner illuminates the inner turmoil of lonely people living courageously while the door to the future begins to swing closed."

• Publishers Weekly (US)

Amazon.com review:

"In Undue Influence, acclaimed novelist Anita Brookner proves once again that even in the most closely circumscribed of lives, hearts can venture into unknown-and potentially explosive-territory. Claire Pitt is nothing if not a practical young woman, living a life in contemporary London that is to all appearances placid, orderly and consciously lacking in surprise. And yet Claire's tangled interior life gives the lie to that illusion. She is prone to vivid speculation about the lives of others, and to fantasies about her own fate that lead her into a courtship so strange that even she wonders at its power to compel her. A potent tale of urban loneliness and the chance intersections that assuage it, UNDUE INFLUENCE constitutes one of Brookner's finest and most psychologically acute achievements."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Already a published author of nonfiction, Anita Brookner (1928-2-16) published her first novel, A Start In Life (1981), at the age of 53. Thereafter, she published roughly a novel a year. Brookner was highly regarded as a stylist. Her novels explore themes of emotional loss and difficulties associated with fitting into society, and typically depict intellectual, middle-class women, who suffer isolation and disappointments in love. Many of Brookner's characters are the children of European immigrants to Britain; a number appear to be of Jewish descent. Hotel du Lac (1984), her fourth novel, was awarded the Booker Prize.

Penguin paperback 2000.

220 pages.

Good condition.

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