num_pages: 255
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Closed Eye
titlecomplete: A Closed Eye
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Modern, Female Authors, Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 464
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd