Leaving Home de Anita Brookner - 2006-05

Thorndike Press, 2006. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Thorndike Press, 2006-05-10. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover, Large Print, illustrated boards, no DJ as issued. 2006, ISBN 0786285575. Small ink x mark to rear free endpaper. From the Booker Prize winning author, a Publishers Weekly Starred Review: "Brookner's narrators often combine a Jamesian inner life with a deceptively blank external one, and Emma Roberts is a paragon of that type. An English doctoral student in the late 1970s whose restraint matches her choice of studies—classical garden design—Emma grew up isolated with a widowed, reclusive mother. 'We loved each other greatly,' she says, 'yet so exclusive was that love that it was experienced more like anguish.' ... This isn't an Austen novel, and even an instant of unalloyed pleasure would seem glib after several pages of Emma's sere circumspection. That circumspection makes the novel very powerful, even as Emma's passivity is sometimes so extreme it feels concocted… Leer más

Thorndike Press, 2006-05-01. Hardcover. Good. 0.9400 in x 8.5800 in x 5.6700 in. LARGE PRINT. Ex-lib. Usual marks. Else clean and tight. To maintain quality of packing and service $2.99 is our lowest price.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Thorndike Pr, 2006-05-10. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!