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Edith hope, 39, a writer of romantic fiction under a more thrusting name, has come to a small, quiet swiss hotel in the offseasonto recover from or atone for some unspecified, scandalous lapse in her london behavior. The problem with the book is that you care little for the central character and in terms of the narrative, nothing. Start reading hotel du lac vintage contemporaries on your kindle in under a minute. Anita brookner s novel, hotel du lac, tells the story of romance novel author edith hope, who is temporarily living in a swiss hotel to work on her latest book. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading hotel du lac vintage contemporaries.
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Fletcher brandon, a professional magician known as red, meets rosa in an oxford pub, where he impresses and seduces her with a successfully performed trick. Hotel du lac is the classic booker prize winning novel by anita brookner. As in brookner s look at me 1983, this jamesian, woolfian heroine is unmarried, wary, cerebraltorn between involvement and detachment, self. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the hotel du lac timidly walks edith hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. One technique that brookner utilizes expertly is that of making the landscape and the weather mirror the central characters feelings. Download ebook hotel du lac by anita brookner across multiple fileformats including epub, doc, and pdf. Anita brookner s most popular book is hotel du lac.
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