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Title: Fraud by Anita Brookner ISBN: 0-679-74308-1 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 January, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant Brookner
Comment: This book is wonderful. Although the characters don't DO much, it's their inner world that counts.
Just when you think Anna is lost forever, she manages to find some inner resource to turn her life around. Hooray! And those that she leaves behind will have to face the honest truth about themselves, or risk living a wasted life.
The author is so very adept at exploring the differences of how we act, in order to be socially acceptable, and how we really feel--what we'd do if we didn't live in "polite society."
Rating: 3
Summary: Vintage Brookner
Comment: A book by Anita Brookner is always depressing. I can't read more than one at a time. But why read them at all? A friend asked me this question and after pondering it I thought: Because when you open a Brookner, you know what world you're in. It's a discreet world of well-educated, upper middle class people (mainly women) living in comfortable circumstances. Yes, they're also desperate and blighted people. Someone is usually dying but meanwhile sitting up in bed in a very perky peignoir. Once that elderly mother dies, though, things get much worse for the unmarried daughter or son left behind. "Fraud" follows all of Brookner's usual conventions yet it resolves itself strangely quickly, without a firm foundation, after an intriguing beginning suggesting a mystery. If you like Brookner, you'll like "Fraud."
Rating: 2
Summary: supremely disappointing
Comment: While Anita Brookner is very adept at character analysis, I found the book and the characters to be quite dull. As to the mystery of the story...yawn...Was supremely disappointed with the end...
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Title: The Debut by Anita Brookner ISBN: 0679727124 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 19 February, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Undue Influence by Anita Brookner ISBN: 0375707344 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz ISBN: 0385264666 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 December, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Providence by Anita Brookner ISBN: 0679738142 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner ISBN: 0679759328 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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