num_pages: 184
description: In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a pseudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to resore her to her senses.But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive.
language: English
title: Hotel du Lac
titlecomplete: Hotel du Lac
characters: Mme de Bonneuil, Philip Neville, Edith Hope, Geoffrey Long, Penelope Milne, M. Huber, Monica, Iris Pusey, David Simmonds, Jennifer Pusey
genres: Classics, British Literature, Female Authors, Novels, Romance, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 21277
places: Switzerland
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage Books