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Dolly by Anita Brookner is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Dolly about?

Anita Brookner has been called "one of the finest novelists of her generation" by The New York Times and "a latter-day Jane Austen" by Publishers Weekly. Now, in Dolly, Brookner continues to explore in her masterful way the changing truths of identity and relationships in the lives of women, with this brilliant portrait of a family. Mild and self-effacing, Jane Manning is ill prepared for the eruption into her life of her glamorous aunt, Dolly. Married to Jane's uncle, Dolly swirls into the Manning home, and, with her perfumed mink and bored laugh, makes it clear that her ways are not their ways, are not in fact anybody else's ways. Dolly becomes an object of both fascination and dread, and as Jane studies her aunt, she realizes that she and Dolly have absolutely nothing in common - nothing, except the fact that they are members of the same family. Jane begins to suspect that Dolly is not the woman she appears to be, that her elegant life is not as charming as she wants people to think. Then Dolly's husband dies, and Jane finds that she and her aunt are fated to be yoked together in uneasy social and financial harness. Brilliantly written, acutely observed, Dolly is Anita Brookner

Who reads Dolly?

Author

Anita Brookner

Publisher

London: Gay Men's Press ; Chicago, IL: Distributed in North America by InBook/LPC Group

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781902852041

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

Rating

4.35 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14