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The Rules of Engagement - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner (Paperback)

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  • About the Author: Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years spent in Paris, has lived there ever since.
  • 288 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
  • Series Name: Vintage Contemporaries

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About the Book



The Booker Prize-winning author of "Hotel du Lac" and "Making Things Better" gives readers an exquisite story about the changes in relationships over time, and how choices can both reflect the past and direct the future.



Review Quotes




"Beautifully rendered. . . . Unexpectedly and intensely moving." -The New York Times Book Review

"Few novelists can stand with Anita Brookner when it comes to the interior revelations of the human heart. . . . A single sentence, a certain expression, a look or a gesture convey worlds of meaning. . . . Every page has a felicity of wording that makes you want to reach for a pen, to underline passages that you don't want to forget." -The Seattle Times

"Beautifully written. . . . The Rules of Engagement demonstrates the triumph of a keenly introspective mind." -The Atlantic Monthly

"The Rules of Engagement is vintage Brookner in the grace and ease of its language. The Booker Prize-winning author is a gifted storyteller, weaving in twists and turns that make the book hard to abandon." -Chicago Tribune

"Elizabeth Wetherall is clearly recognizable as one of Brookner's exquisite gem solitaries. . . . To read Brookner is to come into contact with a first-rate mind. . . . [She] is relentlessly existential. But also comic." -Miami Herald

"The story is told . . . with such elegance and polish that its surface-satiny, flawless and smooth as an onion, as always-holds a fascination equal to its content." -The Washington Post Book World

"One of the great strengths of Brookner's fiction: her ability to lay bare in limpid, measured, luminous prose her characters' least admirable, most desperate motivations." -Los Angeles Times Book Review

"[Brookner renders] her characters with intense fidelity. Few novelists have such a subtle, portrait artist's sense of their characters." -San Francisco Chronicle

"Brookner is a master of the art of the middle distance and as graceful as a matador when she uses the bright cape of her elegant Jamesian sentences to keep intimacy at bay." -The Boston Globe



About the Author



Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years spent in Paris, has lived there ever since. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. The Rules of Engagement is her twenty-second novel.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.06 Inches (H) x 5.22 Inches (W) x .64 Inches (D)
Weight: .48 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 288
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Series Title: Vintage Contemporaries
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Author: Anita Brookner
Language: English
Street Date: February 8, 2005
TCIN: 91286005
UPC: 9781400075300
Item Number (DPCI): 247-08-9213
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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