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Hotel du Lac


Hotel du Lac (ISBN 0679759328) is a Booker Prize winning novel (1984) by Anita Brookner. The book was turned into a 1986 television movie of the same name, starring Anna Massey as Edith Hope.

Reviews

Hotel du Lac received rave notices on its way to winning the much coveted Booker.

  • Anne Tyler in The New York Times Book Review said: "Brookner's most absorbing novel...wryly realistic...graceful and attractive."
  • The New York Times have praised Brookner as "one of the finest novelists of her generation."
  • Newsweek: "Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."
  • The Sunday Times: "A remarkable novel... Anita Brookner's best."
  • The Spectator said: "A classic - a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now."
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