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Dollyby Brookner, Anita
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Book DescriptionNew York, New York, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 1995. New softcover. Front cover illustrated with a black and white picture. Cover and page edging are clean. Leaves are clean, crisp and unmarked. Has 260 pages.. Soft Cover. New. Book summaryWhen Jane Manning meets her ultra-feminine Aunt Dolly she is both repelled and enamored. But family circumstances bring them together, and Jane learns about loving someone she cannot like.Media Reviews"About as wonderful as anything Miss Brookner has ever written." -- Carol Kino, New York Times Book Review "One of her best novels since her Booker Prize-winning 'Hotel du Lac'... a novel to savor..." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer "The central character--Dolly--may be the one most worthy of interest that this prolific author has yet described." "Immensely rewarding...Not merely is it the best of Brookner's novels; it is close to perfection." -- Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World "Compelling...takes us deep into the territory of the heart, with all its rocky roads and shimmering possibilities." -- Los Angeles Times "Poignant, beautifully told...A spellbinding portrait of the dreams and frustrations of the human heart." -- Christian Science Monitor First LineI thought of her as the aunt rather than as my aunt, for anything more intimate would have implied appropriation, or attachment. Publisher NotesThe latest novel by one of the literary scene's most profound observers of women's lives. From the moment Jane first meets Aunt Dolly, with her perfumed mink and bored laughter, she is both fascinated and appalled. But as the exigencies of family life bring Jane and Dolly together, Brookner shows how we sometimes end up loving people we cannot always bring ourselves to like. Anita Brookner has been called "one of the finest novelists of her generation" by The New York Times and "a latter-day Jane Austen" by Publishers Weekly. Now, in Dolly, Brookner continues to explore in her masterful way the changing truths of identity and relationships in the lives of women, with this brilliant portrait of a family. Mild and self-effacing, Jane Manning is ill prepared for the eruption into her life of her glamorous aunt, Dolly. Married to Jane's uncle, Dolly swirls into the Manning home, and, with her perfumed mink and bored laugh, makes it clear that her ways are not their ways, are not in fact anybody else's ways. Dolly becomes an object of both fascination and dread, and as Jane studies her aunt, she realizes that she and Dolly have absolutely nothing in common - nothing, except the fact that they are members of the same family. Jane begins to suspect that Dolly is not the woman she appears to be, that her elegant life is not as charming as she wants people to think. Then Dolly's husband dies, and Jane finds that she and her aunt are fated to be yoked together in uneasy social and financial harness. Brilliantly written, acutely observed, Dolly is Anita Brookner at her best, an elegant and illuminating exploration of how realities change, how power and perceptions alter over the course of a family's life. Other Recommended Books
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