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    <body><![CDATA[A quite book, beautifully so.  The simple prose is deceiving--the book is not simple, but elegant and superbly crafted.  The words wrap you like the mist that weaves in and out of the landscape.  A story of an older woman on a vacation alone.  Loved it.<br/><br/>Anyone who has ever contemplated or...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1445946">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[About how being coupled allows one to relax and behave badly, and the good behavior expected of single women.  The main character is brittle and lonely, and the tenor of everything is like &quot;overcooked veal&quot; but still there is something about the way the character feels uncomfortable in the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23335772">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In college, the women in the Chamber Singers group I belonged to sang:<br/><br/>&quot;An ape, a lion, a fox and an ass,<br/>Do show forth man's life as it were in a glass.<br/>For apeish they are till twenty-and-one, <br/>And after than lions till forty be gone.<br/>Then wicked as foxes till t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46112086">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Hotel Du Lac&quot; is at once a sad and celebratory novel. I never think of it as celebratory, as Edith the main character doesn't seem the type to celebrate, but in her own way I believe this story ends with her version of just that. By all conventions, Edith is a sad woman, writing romance n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67614004">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Brookner's writing for its intelligence. I sometime struggle with some of her perspective as the female voice of the prime character in her novels but overall I think she provides a unique insight into the female character being feminist and anti-feminist at the same time if that makes sense....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70463478">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up on one of my random library forays.  This is a novel about a British romance novelist who goes to stay at a Swiss hotel to wait out an embarrassing personal situation.  While she's there she meets some rich people, sees the way they live, almost is seduced by one of then, learns som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47443806">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this book many years ago, but have read it again and remembered it.  This is about a woman that lives in London and has just broken off w/her significant other.  She goes to Hotel Du Lac in Switzerland to get over it.  The writing about the people she sees at the hotel, the stories she invent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43335154">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved <em>On Chesil Beach<em> and Brookner's work is in much the same tradition.  It's deliberate and cerebral; it takes place in about a week's time.  Brookner masterfully explores questions of love, interdependence, identity, feminism, and aging.  It's a very reflective novel although also at times quit...</em></em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40331136">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><em>Hotel du Lac</em> is a good book, accomplished in that every little detail, menial or nonsensical, is like a photograph on the page. The novella is like a sensitive study on people, their particulars and what have you, and of course most of all, on the protagonist herself. However, it was my first ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62205388">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I lost interest for a few months just before reaching the climax of the story, but I eventually found the will power to end it. Having only read two of Brookner's novels, I could immediately see a pattern; but in her defense, she writes her series of similar novels so well. Her one trick pony does a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52587508">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I went into this book with high expectations. I had just finished Look At Me, and I got this one because it won the Booker Prize.  It was...just okay.  Edith, the protagonist, is in a sort of self-imposed exile at a snooty Switzerland hotel that's mostly populated by rich, crabby old women.  But tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35384270">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A disturbing book that was at the same time a pleasure to read.  We begin when Edith Hope commences her stay at the Hotel du Lac, a luxury hotel, prideful of the fact that it is the place people go when they need a deep rest.  Brookner's prose perfectly encapsulates the mood as Edith stands before h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21899547">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the story of a woman who stays in a hotel and how she interacts with the five other guests there.  There isn't much else to the plot, besides one little twist that caught me off guard.  I was somewhat bothered because I could never tell what decade this was supposed to be set in.  Reading th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20447557">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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