Falling Slowly by Brookner, Anita

Falling Slowly (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375704246)

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Format: Paperback
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Falling Slowly by Brookner, Anita

Falling Slowly

$15.00
Falling Slowly by Brookner, Anita

Falling Slowly

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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In Falling Slowly, Anita Brookner brilliantly evokes the origins, nature, and consequences of human isolation. As middle age settles upon the Sharpe sisters, regret over chances not taken casts a shadow over their contented existence. Beatrice, a talented if uninspired pianist, gives up performing, a decision motivated by stiffening joints and the sudden realization that her art has never brought her someone to love. Miriam, usually calm and lucid, slides headlong into an affair with a charming, handsome--and very married--man. And as each woman awakens to the urgency of her loneliness, illness threatens to sever them both from the one happiness they have grown to count on: each other. Painfully wise, the Sharpe sisters embody the conflicting yearnings Jane Austen delineated in Sense and Sensibility.

Author: Anita Brookner
ISBN-10: 0375704248
ISBN-13: 9780375704246
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/04/2000
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.55d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/23/2000 pg. 32
By Anita Brookner
By Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years in Paris, has lived there ever since. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988.

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