Hotel du Lac

Anita Brookner

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English

Penguin Books Ltd
24 February 1994

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Booker Prizes

Reissue of Brookner's best-known and bestselling Man Booker Prize-winning novel

'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era'

Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating loneliness is renewed . . .

By: Anita Brookner
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 141g
ISBN: 9780140147476
ISBN 10: 0140147470
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 24 February 1994
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anita Brookner was born in London in 1928. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988.

Reviews for Hotel du Lac

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1984. Exiled to Switzerland by her embarrassed friends, Edith Hope longs to end her cumbersome spinsterhood and engage in genteel romance, possibly with the sardonic Mr Neville. Its tone is more ambiguous than Brookner's earlier novels, and its themes - vain longing for a loving union between two people, an aching for morality and a sense of purpose - are treated with sympathy and intelligence. (Kirkus UK)