{"product_id":"9781784744687","title":"Anita Brookner","description":"\u003cp\u003e'It would be hard to think of a better biographer for this uniquely contradictory intellectual…. piercingly intelligent… Lee's biography … has \u003ci\u003ejoie de vivre\u003c\/i\u003e, high humour and energetic compassion for the multiplying complexities of the human mind' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe groundbreaking biography of Booker Prize-winning novelist and art historian Anita Brookner, from one of our leading literary biographers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnita Brookner was an intensely private person who kept her friends in separate compartments and had secrets she never revealed. She grew tired of the assumption that her lonely heroines were versions of herself, and resisted autobiographical readings of her books. But she gave away many intriguing glimpses of her own family life in interviews, and her own feelings, experiences and preoccupations fill her writings. Her life story, both hidden and exposed, makes compelling reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHermione Lee reveals the full story of a brilliant, idiosyncratic and complex woman and goes deep into Anita Brookner's marvellous work in all its stylishness and daring.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Anita Brookner:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'No one writes with more skill and honesty about the human condition ' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003eSo fine a novelist that she deserves to be judged always in a class of her own' \u003cb\u003eSelina Hastings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once?'\u003cb\u003e Tessa Hadley, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An icon . . . Wonderful, lucid prose' \u003cb\u003eJilly Cooper\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The beauty and precision of Brookner's writing is rightly praised . . . but what is less often remarked on is her daring' \u003cb\u003eHelen Dunmore, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chatto \u0026#38; Windus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57555416875381,"sku":"9781784744687","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781784744687.jpg?v=1788791661","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9781784744687","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}