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Brookner

[ brook-ner ]

noun

  1. Anita, 1928–2016, English novelist and art historian.


Brookner

/ ˈbrʊknə /

noun

  1. BrooknerAnita1928FBritishWRITING: writerHISTORY: historian Anita . born 1928, British writer and art historian. Her novels include Hotel du Lac (1984), which won the Booker Prize, Brief Lives (1990), and The Next Big Thing (2002)


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Why not include Anita Brookner, Richard Wright, Alan Hollinghurst, or a dozen others, like Don DeLillo, for instance?

But, like any weathered artist, Brookner's vast experience penetrates the spare frame of her novel, giving it unforeseen life.

Strangersby Anita Brookner Anita Brookner's Jamesian novel explores the depths of human loneliness—and desire.

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