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A Closed Eye

3.6/5 ( ratings)

In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening.In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives.

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Release: July 02, 1992

ISBN: 0140165266

ISBN 13: 9780140165265

A Closed Eye

3.6/5 ( ratings)

In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening.In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives.

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Release: July 02, 1992

ISBN: 0140165266

ISBN 13: 9780140165265

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