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Book, 1993
Current format, Book, 1993, , All copies in use.
Book, 1993
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A woman comfortably settles into a marriage of convenience only to have her inner desires stirred by the dangerous husband of a close friend In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening.
In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives.
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