{"product_id":"brief-lives-paperback","title":"Brief Lives - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe latest novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac chronicles an unlikely friendship between two very different women thrust together by their husbands' business partnership--and by a guilty secret. \"Anita Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight\".--The Washington Post Book World.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this novel, Booker Prize-winning author Anita Brookner confirms her reputation as an unparalleled observer of social nuance and deeply felt longings. Brief Lives chronicles an unlikely friendship: that between the flamboyant, monstrously egocentric Julia and the modest, self-effacing Fay, who is at once fascinated and appalled by Julia's excesses. Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership -- and by a guilty secret -- Julia and Fay develop an intense bond that is nonetheless something less than intimacy, a relationship in which we see our own uneasy compromises, not only with other people, but with life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374400897247,"sku":"9780679737339","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/gPAkm0BiCy9780679737339.webp?v=1789178910","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/brief-lives-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}