Look at Me

by Anita Brookner

Overview

A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679738138
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/14/1997
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	415,767
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.96(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years in Paris, was a lifelong Londoner. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. She is the author of twenty-seven books, including the Booker Prize–winning novel Hotel Du Lac. She died in 2016.

Editorial Reviews

"A stunning character study," said LJ's reviewer of this novel (LJ 4/1/83), which centers on love, friendship, and the loss of both in the hollow life of English medical librarian Frances Hinton.

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