Making Things Better/Incidents in the Rue Laugier by Anita Brookner Paperbacks

- Pair of paperbacks by the British art historian and author Anita Brookner, the Booker prize-winning writer of Hotel Du Lac, which was made into a TV adaptation - If you know anything about Brookner, she was a master of character and detail, with deep psychological insight into human nature, often depicting personas living in isolation or having suffered loss - Making Things Better follows the life of Julius Herz, an older gentleman in the throws of retirement, contemplating life - 275 pgs.; Copyright 2002; ISBN 1400031060; Published by Vintage Books - Has wear on spine and edges of cover, some yellowing of textblock, and one dogear page, but otherwise, has clean pages with no markings or tears - 8"L x 5 1/8"W x 11/16"H - Incidents in the Rue Laugier, set in the 1970s, August, in the French countryside, with 18-year old Maud Gonthier as the main character, living in her wealthy aunt's house, meets David Tyler, and falls deeply in love, but is taken in by Edward, David's friend - 219 pgs.; Copyright 1995; ISBN 0140252487; Published by Penguin Books - Has wear on front cover with a large crease running down the middle, which flows through to the first half of book, and a dogear page. The price is blacked out on the back of the book, but otherwise, has clean pages with no markings or tears - 7"L x 4 1/4"W x 5/8"H - If you enjoy complex psychological dramas, or want to add to your Brookner book collection, you might like these books