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<p><p>facing Life Alone At An Advanced Age, Julius Herz Cannot Shake The Sense That He Should Be Elsewhere, Doing Other Things. Walking Through Bustling Streets That Seem Increasingly Alien To Him, He&#8217;s Confronted By Life&#8217;s Pressing Questions With An Urgency He Has Never Known Before&#58; What Do We Owe The People In Our Lives? How Should We Fill Our Days? Feeling Fortified Despite The Growing Ache In His Heart, Herz Finds Himself Also Blessed With A Stirring Sense Of Exhilaration. After A Lifetime Of Deferring To Others&#8217; Stronger Wills, He Faces A Future Of Possibility, The Only Constraint The Deeply Ingrained Habits Of His Mind. Profound And Deeply Resonant, <b>making Things Better</b> Explores The Quandaries Of Aging, Longing, And Self-discovery With Transfixing Precision And Spellbinding Acuity.</p><h3>the New York Times</h3><p>from The Solitary Bachelor In Henry James's <i>beast In The Jungle</i> To The Solitary Butler In Kazuo Ishiguro's <i>remains Of The Day</i>, Fiction Is Filled With Memorable Hesitators. Anita Brookner Is The Most Intrepid Contemporary Explorer Of This Terrain, Which She Refers To, In <i>making Things Better</i>, As The ''unlived Life.''

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Author

Anita Brookner

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Vintage Books

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400031061

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.57 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13