Falling Slowly - Anita Brookner - Books - Vintage - 9780375704246 - January 4, 2000
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Falling Slowly First edition

Anita Brookner

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Falling Slowly First edition

In Falling Slowly, Anita Brookner brilliantly evokes the origins, nature, and consequences of human isolation. As middle age settles upon the Sharpe sisters, regret over chances not taken casts a shadow over their contented existence. Beatrice, a talented if uninspired pianist, gives up performing, a decision motivated by stiffening joints and the sudden realization that her art has never brought her someone to love. Miriam, usually calm and lucid, slides headlong into an affair with a charming, handsome--and very married--man. And as each woman awakens to the urgency of her loneliness, illness threatens to sever them both from the one happiness they have grown to count on: each other. Painfully wise, the Sharpe sisters embody the conflicting yearnings Jane Austen delineated in Sense and Sensibility.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 4, 2000
ISBN13 9780375704246
Publishers Vintage
Pages 240
Dimensions 130 × 200 × 10 mm   ·   276 g
Language English  

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