Brief Lives - Brookner, Anita

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Brief Lives by Brookner, Anita Format: PaperbackPublished by Vintage, 1992 With this novel, Booker Prize-winning author Anita Brookner confirms her reputation as an unparalleled ob server of social nuance and deeply felt longings. Brief Lives chronicles an unlikely friendship: that between the flamboyant, monstrously egocentric Julia and the modest, self-effacing Fay, who is at once fascinated and appalled by Julia's excesses. Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership -- and by a guilty secret -- Julia and Fay develop an intense bond that is nonetheless something less than intimacy, a relationship in which we see our own uneasy compromises, not only with other people, but with life itself.Product image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale. Show more