Friend from England

by Anita Brookner

ISBN: 0394563875
ISBN-13: 9780394563879
Format: Hardcover

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Media Reviews

"Rachel, the narrator..., has chosen to live life on the surface. She avoids emotional commitments and entanglements with an almost pathological fervor...'A Friend from England' shows, by chronicling her relationship with the suburban Livingstones, how Rachel has deceived herself...The Livingstones are memorably drawn, a picture of simplicity and innocence, and Rachel's ironic certainty, culminating in the dreadful, angry exposure of her real life to Heather, is painfully real." -- Heather Neill

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 1988

Publisher's Notes

In a tale of gradual self-revelation, Rachel, her friend Heather, and Heather's parents live desperately ordinary lives, unable to take the chances necessary to find self-fulfillment.

Other Editions

Paperback Reprint - Harpercollins (1989) - from $1.00
Hardcover - Random House Inc (1988) - from $1.00

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