Status Updates From The Bay of Angels

Late at night I found myself, as I knew I should, on the beach. The air was calm, the night particularly beautiful. It would have been entirely possible for me to walk out into the sea. That I did not do so was the result of a sense of duty to myself. I wanted to know the rest of the story, however it might turn out.

I'm 55% in,and it still feels like we're just setting the scene, the main story hasn't even kicked in yet

My very first impression of my very first Brookner: wow, that's some olympic-level writing. Makes you realize how much mediocre prose I've been reading recently. Not sure about the subject matter yet. But this is some smart shit