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Ladataan... Hotel Du Lac (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 1984; vuoden 1994 painos)– tekijä: Anita Brookner (Tekijä)
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Booker Prize (57) » 10 lisää Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. The prose was just gorgeous and I can't wait to read more Brookner. However, the story itself was a bit boring and I found the main character to be a bit of a sad sack. So I pitied her more than rooted for her. (  ) JustZelma | Dec 20, 2020 |  I continue my project of reading all the Booker Prize winners this year. Follow me at www.methodtohermadness.com I am so happy that the Booker Project introduced me to Anita Brookner. I was already biased in favor of this book before even opening it, because it has a French title. Then I started reading it and fell in love. I felt like I was reading a Carol Shields novel set in Switzerland instead of North America. Edith Hope, author of romance novels, arrives at the Hotel du Lac in disgrace – but we will not learn why until about two-thirds of the way through the book. Meanwhile, she observes the women around her – for the hotel is mainly populated by women. They all seem to conform to a type at first, but all present some sort of surprise by the end. There are the mother-daughter pair whose ages keep having to be revised upward, the elderly lady abandoned by her son, and a wraith with an eating disorder and a pocket pooch. The vacation-cum-exile atmosphere is slightly surreal, reminding me of Stanley Middleton’s Holiday, also about a character who has extracted himself from relationship trouble to gain perspective. I won’t spoil anything, but I feel the ending was rushed. I wish this book had been twice as long, allowing Edith’s own romance, and character, more time to bloom. But I will definitely be reading more Anita Brookner. (  ) stephkaye | Dec 14, 2020 | This book has a slow yet encapsulating way of making you question the way you make assumptions about people. Its very clever. when I got to the end I wanted to laugh out at the delight of it. An excellent recommendation from my grandmother. The copy of the book I read was owned by a woman whose husband had bought her every Booker prize winner since they married. I thought that also sweet. (  ) Happenence | Oct 2, 2020 | I found this very enjoyable. Simply written and easy to read, it tells the tale of Edith, a 39-year-old romance writer who is pushed to go on an extended vacation by friends who feel she has not behaved properly. We aren't told exactly what she did to upset people until well into the book, but instead are given little tastes of her life until it finally comes together. The friends made a reservation at a Swiss hotel, a proper hotel that welcomes only the "right kind" of guests. She is welcome because she is quiet and behaves properly. Other guests spend extended lengths of time there, both of their own volition and because they may be foisted off by relatives. In the style of older hotels, there are set meal times and tea times and generally the guests all eat the same things, with minor variations. So Edith, the writer, finds herself mixing with others during these times. Thus she meets interesting characters and muses on her own ability to understand others. In fact she wonders just how perceptive she really is, given that writers are supposed to have special powers in this area. It's a good time for reflection. Edith knows that her friends are expecting her to return apologetically but it appears that Edith does not see her behavior in that same light. Nevertheless, she does muse on her own ability to find love, as opposed to the ability of her romantic leads to do so. This is not a sweet romantic book. It is surprisingly complex and interesting. ( ) slojudy | Sep 8, 2020 | 3.5 stars (  ) snakes6 | Aug 25, 2020 | ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Winner of the Booker Prize '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 . . . 'A classic . . . a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now' Spectator %%%Hotel du Lacis the classic Booker Prize winning novel by Anita Brookner. 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 spinsterhood is renewed . . . 'A classic . . . a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now' Spectator 'A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever' The Times 'Hotel du Lacis written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart' Observer 'Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding' Hilary Mantel, Guardian 'She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction' Literary Review Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. Hotel du Lacwon the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism. No library descriptions found. |
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