Altered States - Hardcover

Brookner, Anita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679449736 ISBN 13: 9780679449737

Publisher: Random House, 1996

Synopsis

The author of Hotel du Lac explores the conflicting needs of men and women, and the lack of understanding that divides them. Following the remarriage of his mother, Alan relectantly becomes engaged to fragile, needy Angela. When Sarah, the object of a previous, destructive affair, reenters his life, Alan embarks on an act of betrayal, the tragic consequences of which will change his life forever. 240 pp. Print ads. 30,000 print.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Engrossing. . . a brilliant X-ray of obsession." --The New York Times Book Review

"Novels like hers are why we read novels." --Christian Science Monitor

"Brookner's vision of human behavior is scrupulously honest, without ever being cruel. . . . A gem of revelation." --Hilma Wolitzer, Chicago Tribune

"Brookner draws characters and settings beautifully; but her best attribute is a finely calibrated understanding of longing trapped in convention." --Wall Street Journal

About the Author:

Anita Brookner was born in London in 1928. She received a B.A. from King's College, University of London, and a Ph.D. in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute. Brookner taught at the University of Reading from 1959 to 1964, and since 1967 has been a Lecturer in Art History at the Courtauld. From 1967 to 1968 she was Slade Professor at Cambridge, the first woman to hold that position.

Since her first novel was published in 1981, Brookner has had a dual career as an art historian and a novelist. She has been remarkably successful in both fields and has published fourteen novels in as many years. Hotel du Lac, her fourth novel, won the Booker Prize, England's highest honor for fiction.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679449736
• ISBN 13: 9780679449737
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 229