Altered States
  • Published:
    Jan-1997 (Hardcover)
    Jan-1997 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    224
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Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and walking shoes, a man thinks he may be looking at the woman for whom he ruined his life many years earlier. Alan Sherwood, a quiet English solicitor, remembers back to a time when he stepped briefly out of character to indulge in a liaison with Sarah Miller, an intriguing but heartless distant relative--only to find himself in a series of absurd situations that culminated in his marriage to Sarah's clinging, childlike friend Angela.

With her compassionate portrait of a man who has paid a terrible price for his folly, Anita Brookner gives us a novel that it at once harrowing and humane. In the traditions of Henry James and Thomas Mann, Altered States is a beautifully rendered tale of loneliness, guilt, and erotic obsession.
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    •  
    • May-1997
    • Penguin
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0140255915
    • ISBN13: 9780140255911
    •  
    • Jan-1998
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0679773258
    • ISBN13: 9780679773252
    •  
    • Jan-1998
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0679309152
    • ISBN13: 9780679309154
    •  
    • Nov-2016
    • Penguin (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 024197951X
    • ISBN13: 9780241979518
    • First Edition
    • Jan-1997
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0679449736
    • ISBN13: 9780679449737
    •  
    • Jan-1997
    • Random House (Canada)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0679308350
    • ISBN13: 9780679308355
    •  
    • Jan-1999
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0517359367
    • ISBN13: 9780517359365
    •  
    • Aug-2012
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307826317
    • ISBN13: 9780307826312
    •  
    • Aug-2012
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0241978289
    • ISBN13: 9780241978283
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    • Jan-2001
    • ISIS Large Print Books
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 0753111306
    • ISBN13: 9780753111307
    •  
    • May-2001
    • ISIS Large Print Books
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0753101777
    • ISBN13: 9780753101773
    •  
    • Mar-1997
    • Thorndike Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0786209771
    • ISBN13: 9780786209774
    • Large Print



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