Ebook {Epub PDF} Visitors by Anita Brookner

 · Anita Brookner lives in England and is the author of seventeen novels, including Incidents in the Rue Laugier, Altered States and A Closed Eye. In addition. In "Visitors, Brookner explores what happens when a woman's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth. Dorothea May is most at ease in the company of strangers. When her late husband's relatives prevail on her to take in a young man for the week before an unexpected family wedding, Thea's carefully constructed, solitary world is thrown into disarray/5(21).  · The extraordinary Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," gives us a brilliant novel about age and awakening. In Visitors, Brookner explores what happens when a woman's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth.

Though Visitors may strike some readers as characteristically bleak, it ends on a more positive note than most of Brookner's recent fictions. It is the most recent in a long line of. Title: Visitors (Windsor Selections S.) Author(s): Anita Brookner ISBN: / (UK edition) Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon C. This item: Visitors. by Anita Brookner Paperback. £ Usually dispatched within 2 to 3 days. Sent from and sold by Book Depository. Strangers. by Anita Brookner Paperback. £ Only 9 left in stock (more on the way).

In "Visitors, Brookner explores what happens when a woman's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth. Dorothea May is most at ease in the company of strangers. When her late husband's relatives prevail on her to take in a young man for the week before an unexpected family wedding, Thea's carefully constructed, solitary world is thrown into disarray. CHAPTER ONE. Visitors. By ANITA BROOKNER. Random House, Inc. Read the Review. Towards evening the oppressive heat was tempered by a slight breeze, although this merely served to power drifts and. Anita Brookner lives in England and is the author of seventeen novels, including Incidents in the Rue Laugier, Altered States and A Closed Eye. In addition.