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A Start in Life (Penguin Essentials)

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Penned By Anita Brookner
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A Start in Life (Penguin Essentials)

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Penned By Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner's first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.' Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment.Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships and doomed Parisian love affairs, she wonders if perhaps there might not be a chance for a new start in life . . .

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Length 176 Pages
Released 1981
Identifier (ISBN) 33871742
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Anita Brookner is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Anita Brookner can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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