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Beschreibung
'The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one things that simply won't be got rid of.'

Destined to be a haunter of libraries Lewis's cautious progress through life reveals to him only his own shortcomings. Estranged from his wife and daughter he searches for an alternative. This novel presents the life and aspirations of one man who remains out of step with his times.
'The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one things that simply won't be got rid of.'

Destined to be a haunter of libraries Lewis's cautious progress through life reveals to him only his own shortcomings. Estranged from his wife and daughter he searches for an alternative. This novel presents the life and aspirations of one man who remains out of step with his times.
Über den Autor
Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and after holding a post as a professor at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris, she 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. In 1984, she won the Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner published a number of volumes of art criticism. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990. She died in 2016 at the age of 87.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780241977798
ISBN-10: 0241977797
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Brookner, Anita
Hersteller: Penguin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Anita Brookner
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.06.2016
Gewicht: 0,33 kg
Artikel-ID: 121736582