Brief lives
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Brookner again shows herself to be the consummate observer of social nuance in this deeply felt chronicle of an unlikely friendship between the flamboyant, ego-centric Julia and modest, self-effacing Fay, the narrator. Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership and by their sharing of a guilty secret, these two women form an intense and intimate bond that highlights their uneasy compromises with each other -- and with life itself.
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Brief lives, Anita Brookner
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- 1991
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- Title
- Brief lives
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Anita Brookner
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1991
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140145389
- ISBN13
- 9780140145380
- Category
- World prose
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- Brookner again shows herself to be the consummate observer of social nuance in this deeply felt chronicle of an unlikely friendship between the flamboyant, ego-centric Julia and modest, self-effacing Fay, the narrator. Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership and by their sharing of a guilty secret, these two women form an intense and intimate bond that highlights their uneasy compromises with each other -- and with life itself.