The latest novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac chronicles an unlikely friendship between two very different women thrust together by their husbands' business partnership--and by a guilty secret. "Anita Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight."--The Washington Post Book World.
Women with small children always appeared to me to be middle-aged when I was a child,while the cinema was the world of eternal youth.I learned,when I grew older,that eternal youth is too precious a delusion to be relinquished:it has to find a place somewhere,be enshrined in a myth,an ideal,even a fantasy. (查看原文)
It embarrassed me now to look back on my passion for Owen.Probably all love affairs,when they are over,evoke a very slight reaction of impatience,distaste.What I felt then could not be captured in words,certainly not at this distance. (查看原文)
0 有用 风挑一点灯 2018-12-22 21:03:04
temporarily done with Ms Brookner,and now it's preciously the time a year is about to melt into another.
0 有用 拉赫玛尼诺妇 2024-01-06 19:40:54 北京
【1】小凡姐推荐的～不是强情节推动的，但非常上头。有一种又老又新的感觉，作者太会写了，像是在偷看别人日记似的。Julia真是个有趣的女人，每一个角色都特别鲜活～
0 有用 寒山 2024-06-27 15:22:39 江苏
Fay简单而又复杂的一生，有各种错乱、各种迷茫，但也有各种欢笑、各种期望。Julia在Fay的后半生中占了很大的比重，但是实际上还是Fay自己的生活更有看头。
0 有用 hierophant 2020-03-16 10:27:22
2016