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Hotel du Lac (Paperback)

by Anita Brookner (Author) "From the window all that could be seen was a receding area of grey ..." (more)

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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Penguin; New Ed edition (27 May 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0140147470
ISBN-13: 978-0140147476
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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Edith Hope (a.k.a. romance author Veronica Wilde) has been banished by her friends to a stately hotel in Switzerland. During her stay she befriends some of the other guests, each of whom has his or her own tale. Edith struggles to come to terms with her career and love--the lack, the benefits, and the meaning thereof.

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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’.

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5.0 out of 5 stars to be or not to be a single woman, 22 Dec 1999

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The author uses the near-solitude of a hotel in the off-season to convey the state of mind of a woman at a crossroads. If, like the heroine, you need a room of your own in which to create, you will relate to this book. A quiet masterpiece, beautifully capturing things unsaid about writing, observing, and being a woman.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Reasons for being single, 27 Jan 2000

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Very subtle and understanding analysis of how a woman who likes her own company could choose singleness...Deep and entertaining reading!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A novel of extraordinary delicacy, 8 Aug 2005

By	Philippe Horak (Zug, Switzerland) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

In her novel, Mrs Brookner portrays a middle-aged writer of romantic fiction, Edith Hope. People claim that there is a certain resemblance with Virginia Woolf in her features. At any rate her novels are published under the pen-name of Vanessa Wilde and they bear such titles as "The Sun at Midnight", "Beneath the Visiting Mood" or "The Stone and the Star". Edith doesn't seem to hold writing in high esteem. She describes this activity more like a compulsion: "she bent her head obediently to her daily task of fantasy and obfuscation", enjoying a rest "after her obscure and unnoticeable exertions". In fact she even considers reading as a kind of cure for the psychologically diseased: "Fiction, the time honoured resource of the ill-at-ease..."
After settling down at the Hotel du Lac - set in a small village on the Swiss shore of lake Geneva - Edith meets her extravagant fellow lodgers: Iris Pusey and her daughter Jennifer, Mme de Bonneuil and Monica accompanied by her insufferable dog Kiki. During her numerous discussions with these women, Edith starts reflecting on the life she has led so far and on love in general. The reader also learns about her past and her troubled relationship with her mother. And it is not before the end of the novel that we discover why Edith came to the Hotel du Lac, why she left London in such a haste and what exactly the "unfortunate lapse" was which brought her to her temporary exile in Switzerland.
Like one critic said about "Hotel du Lac": "Novels like Anita Brookner's are why we read novels".

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5.0 out of 5 stars I disagree with almost all the other reviews :-)
i really enjoyed this book, I didn't think it was dull, but nor did I think it was a delicately painted subtle little thing of beauty. Read more

Published 2 months ago by emma who reads a lot

1.0 out of 5 stars Wish I could put no stars!!
I am at present 'ploughing' through this book (in spite of the fact that it's quite short!!) 130 pages so far, and I haven't laughed once yet! Read more

Published 6 months ago by bragadaccio

2.0 out of 5 stars Not her best by any means...
Anita Brookner has a rare gift for portraying loneliness, exclusion, repression and so on, and for exposing the subtle psychological manipulations and maneouverings in human... Read more

Published 13 months ago by HexOmega

5.0 out of 5 stars Still the best Booker prize winner
Beautifully written and hugely entertaining. Pity that Miss Brookner never wrote another high comedy of quite the same order...

Published on 14 Oct 2006 by Dominic Swayne

1.0 out of 5 stars Lacks passion
I was extremely disappointed in this book. The woman is supposed to be in love, yet in the height of its expression, she utters "Oh David, oh David". Read more

Published on 10 Dec 2001

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