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Hotel du Lac Brookner, Anita Cover Artist: Susan Moxley Genres: Novel, Fiction, Romance novel Publishers: Jonathan Cape, London, 1984 Awards: Booker Prize ISBN 10: 0224022385 Used/ Hardcover Hotel du Lac is a 1984 Booker Prize-winning novel by English writer Anita Brookner. It centres on Edith Hope, a romance novelist who is staying in a hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva. There she meets other English visitors, including Mrs Pusey, Mrs Pusey's daughter Jennifer, and an attractive middle-aged man, Mr Neville. Item Description First Edition. Fifth Printing. Clean hardback copy with dust jacket designed by Susan Moxley. Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1984. Very Good Condition. Hardcover edition with illustrated dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with title, author and publisher's logo in gold on the spine. 184pp.
About the author Anita Brookner (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016) was an English award-winning novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded the 1984 Man Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. Already a published author of nonfiction, Brookner published her first novel, A Start In Life (1981), at the age of 53. Thereafter, she published roughly a novel a year. Brookner was highly regarded as a stylist. Her novels explore themes of emotional loss and difficulties associated with fitting into society, and typically depict intellectual, middle-class women, who suffer isolation and disappointments in love. Many of Brookner's characters are the children of European immigrants to Britain; a number appear to be of Jewish descent. Hotel du Lac (1984), her fourth novel, was awarded the Booker Prize.
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