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Strangers. Anita Brookner (2009)

by Anita Brookner(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0141040262 (ISBN13: 9780141040264)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Penguin Books

review 1: Paul Sturgis, retired 70 year old bachelor tackles loneliness, concerns of failing health and unfulfilling relationships with two slightly younger women. Tricky topic! It takes a brave writer to bring Paul Sturgis's life to us and a committed reader to try to understand it. No epiphany, no momentous events, just vacillation and drear. Brookner gives us a well-written, detailed and plausible description of Paul's character and the wanderings of his mind, but really, why bother?
review 2: I approach reading about older, retired people with some reservation, expecting it to be depressing. But in the hands of a writer as skilled as Anita Brookner, the subject is handled with such insight, humor, tenderness and dramatic tension I stayed up half the night to finish t... morehe book. One follows a man of 72-73 through his daily, lonely routines, including obligatory visits with a female cousin and encounters with two very different women. The women are not particularly interested in him, but they stimulate another way of regarding his life and realizing choices he hadn't considered, which make all the difference. Effects are subtle and his responses ambivalent and altogether real and instructive. less

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