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Brief Lives by Brookner, Anita is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Brief Lives about?
With this novel, Booker Prize-winning author Anita Brookner confirms her reputation as an unparalleled observer of social nuance and deeply felt longings. Brief Lives chronicles an unlikely friendship: that between the flamboyant, monstrously egocentric Julia and the modest, self-effacing Fay, who is at once fascinated and appalled by Julia's excesses. Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership -- and by a guilty secret -- Julia and Fay develop an intense bond that is nonetheless something less than intimacy, a relationship in which we see our own uneasy compromises, not only with other people, but with life itself. **
Who reads Brief Lives?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Brookner, Anita
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (122 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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