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Lewis Percy
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 bew...more
Paperback, 261 pages
Published
March 13th 1991
by Vintage
(first published 1989)
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This was a hard book to get into, but got some what better. It was a character study of a man in Britian. There wasn't much conversation in the book.
The same sort of sadness, and self-imposed isolation from Anita Brookner, but such an unexpected and beautiful ending!
I have to say that the eponymous hero never really came alive for me. The ending was a delightful surprise.
Lewis Percy by Anita Brookner (1989)
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