Hotel du Lac
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3.7 • 17 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams.
Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating spinsterhood is renewed ...
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1984, "Hotel du Lac" was described by The Times as "A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever".
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
An air of elegance hangs over British novelist Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac, winner of 1984’s Man Booker Prize. The story starts with protagonist Edith Hope—a wry, solitary author of romantic fiction—being banished to a gray Swiss town for committing an unspecified transgression. Edith spends her days working on her new book, composing fervent letters to an inauspicious love and bearing witness to the more colourful guests of her fusty hotel. Brookner’s pristine prose sparkles with precision, reflecting the sharp edges of her heroine’s solitary existence and magnifying her witty intelligence.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The winner of the 1984 Booker Prize, this novel tells the story of Edith Hope, 40, unmarried and distraught over a failed love, who is persuaded by friends to go to the quiet, respectable Hotel du Lac in Switzerland. A writer of romantic fiction, Hope becomes enmeshed in the lives of the other guests. Noting that the delivery was perhaps more important than specific events, PW called Brookner "insidiously observant, so soft of voice the reader must listen closely for the wry wit and sly humor. She is poignantly moving.''
