Anita Brookner
Books by Anita Brookner
“How to describe Brookner’s prose? It’s sophisticated and a little musty. She’s known for writing about spinsters, or about women who are not in possession of the brass rings that maybe those around them have come to get. They’re outsiders, and often very curious observers. There’s something both calming and disturbing about her writing that brings me back over and over.” Read more...
Lauren Mechling, Journalist
Interviews where books by Anita Brookner were recommended
The best books on Friendship, recommended by Lauren Mechling
Friendships: they can be hard to keep and even harder to understand. Yet so often they end up having enormous impacts on our lives. Lauren Mechling, contributing editor at Vogue and author of the novel How Could She, picks the novelists that best portray the thorny underside of friendship as well as its joys.
