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      Brief Lives

      by Anita Brookner
      Published
      Jun 1991
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      224
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      With this novel, Booker Prize-winning author Anita Brookner confirms her reputation as an unparalleled observer of social nuance and deeply felt longings. Brief Lives chronicles an unlikely friendship: that between the flamboyant, monstrously egocentric Julia and the modest, self-effacing Fay, who is at once fascinated and appalled by Julia's excesses. Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership -- and by a guilty secret -- Julia and Fay develop an intense bond that is nonetheless something less than intimacy, a relationship in which we see our own uneasy compromises, not only with other people, but with life itself.

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      Literary

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      Aug 1991 Penguin ISBN13 9780140145380 ISBN10 0140145389
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      Apr 1992 Vintage ISBN13 9780679737339 ISBN10 0679737332
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      Nov 2016 Penguin (UK) ISBN13 9780241979396 ISBN10 0241979390
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      First Edition Jun 1991 Random House ISBN13 9780394585482 ISBN10 0394585488
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      Jun 1991 Chivers Audio Books ISBN13 9780745158099 ISBN10 0745158099
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      Mar 2000 Center Point ISBN13 9781585470181 ISBN10 158547018X
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