A Closed Eye Anita Brookner Hardcover Book

a closed eye by Anita Brookner Published by Random House Condition: Good- shows signs of use on cover and edges of pages, as well as having a few pages with marks, but otherwise in good readable condition. (Former library book) Format: Hardcover book Publication Year: 1992 first edition “In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening. In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives.”