{"product_id":"hotel-du-lac-a-novel-man-booker-prize-winner-anita-brookner-paperback","title":"Hotel Du Lac: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner) -- Anita Brookner, Paperback","description":"In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question \"Why love?\" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a psudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to resore her to her senses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, \u003cb\u003eHotel du Lac\u003c\/b\u003e is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anita Brookner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679759324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Man Booker Prize - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnita Brookner\u003c\/b\u003e was born in London and, apart from several years in Paris, was a lifelong Londoner. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. She is the author of twenty-seven books, including the Booker Prize-winning novel \u003ci\u003eHotel Du Lac\u003c\/i\u003e. She died in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anita Brookner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50539591991524,"sku":"9780679759324","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780679759324.jpg?v=1790323001","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/hotel-du-lac-a-novel-man-booker-prize-winner-anita-brookner-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}