The Rules of Engagement
Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2004.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 271 pages ; 23 cm
To read Brookner is to be reminded of fiction's potential to stun, with full, complex characters in a richly imagined world, as she draws on her insights into human nature to explore the strained, yet enduring friendship of two women. -- Publishers Weekly (starred). Brookner again chronicles with surgical precision lives distorted by temperament and circumstance. -- Kirkus Reviews. Elizabeth and Betsy have known each other since they were schoolgirls. When they meet again later in life, one is safely married and the other most unsafely partnered. Together, they discover that despite their different lives, they still have in common the capacity for making dangerous choices. In this masterly new novel, Anita Brookner gives us an exquisite story about how our life choices can both reflect the past and direct the future, as she weaves an impeccably crafted tale of two women.
Subjects:
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Women -- England -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Women -- England -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
ISBN:
1585474770 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LPF Brookner | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.