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Lewis Percy

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Anita Brookner is justly famous for her elegant, almost Jamesian character studies of women poised on the threshold of life. But in Lewis Percy, she performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: March 13, 1991

ISBN: 0679729445

ISBN 13: 9780679729440

Lewis Percy

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Anita Brookner is justly famous for her elegant, almost Jamesian character studies of women poised on the threshold of life. But in Lewis Percy, she performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: March 13, 1991

ISBN: 0679729445

ISBN 13: 9780679729440

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