Lewis Percy

Lewis Percy - Paperback

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Lewis Percy - Paperback

Lewis Percy - Paperback

by Anita Brookner
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by Anita Brookner (Author)

Front Jacket

Anita Brookner is justly famous for her elegant, almost Jamesian character studies of women poised on the threshold of life. But in Lewis Percy, she performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him.

Back Jacket

Anita Brookner performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him.

Author Biography

Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years in Paris, has lived there ever since. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988.

Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.62 x 8.02 x 5.25 IN
Publication Date: March 13, 1991
ISBN9780679729440
Author Anita Brookner
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 1991
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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