num_pages: 272
description: Anita Brookner is justly famous for her elegant, almost Jamesian character studies of women poised on the threshold of life. But in Lewis Percy, she performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him.
language: English
title: Lewis Percy
titlecomplete: Lewis Percy
genres: Womens, 20th Century, Contemporary, Modern, Novels, Fiction, Literary Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 322
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group