Falling Slowly Brookner AnitaPaperback
In Falling Slowly, Anita Brookner brilliantly evokes the origins, nature, and consequences of human isolation. Beatrice, a talented if uninspired pianist, gives up performing, a decision motivated by stiffening joints and the sudden realization that her art has never brought her… Celý popis ↓
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In Falling Slowly, Anita Brookner brilliantly evokes the origins, nature, and consequences of human isolation. Beatrice, a talented if uninspired pianist, gives up performing, a decision motivated by stiffening joints and the sudden realization that her art has never brought her someone to love. As middle age settles upon the Sharpe sisters, regret over chances not taken casts a shadow over their contented existence.
And as each woman awakens to the urgency of her loneliness, illness threatens to sever them both from the one happiness they have grown to count on: each other. Miriam, usually calm and lucid, slides headlong into an affair with a charming, handsome--and very married--man. Painfully wise, the Sharpe sisters embody the conflicting yearnings Jane Austen delineated in Sense and
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