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Altered States: Complete & Unabridged (Isis (Hardcover Large Print)) |  | Author: Anita Brookner
Creator: Steven Crossley
Publisher: ISIS Audio Books
Category: Book
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Format: Audiobook
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Edition: Unabridged
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 0753101777
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780753101773
ASIN: 0753101777
Publication Date: April 1997
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 One of my favourite Brookner's novels October 20, 2009
Suave (UK)
After I read her lastest novel, "Strangers", I went back to read this earlier novel which I read many years ago. In many ways, the main character, Sturgis in "Strangers" is similar to the protaganist, Alan Sherwood in "Altered States". They both are loners because they didn't meet the right person to love and to be close to in their lives. Brookners' perfect reader is someone who prefers prose instead of plot ridden story. If this sound dull, then her books are not for you. She never write a book entirely relied on the plots like murder mystery, detective novels or science ficition.
As an art historian herself, Brookner's works are very much like Pointillism ("is a style of painting in which small distinct dots of colour create the impression of a wide selection of other colors and blending"). The way she tell a story is slow, reflective and contemplative. She understands the aloneness and the solitude so well, better than any other contemporary writers. Her perspectives about men (coming from the main character, a man's point of view) is so penetratingly and accurately observed. The most breathtaking scene for me is the one before the last scene where Alan and his business partner, Brian, talking in the office. Despite the atmosphere of polite conducts and genteelness, it makes the readers so uncomfortable and it moves me to tears when I read this scene. Both men are choked with their emotion but Brookner's understanding about "the stiff upper lip" of the Englishness is so profound. I will enjoy re-reading this novel again and again for many years! It's a classic novel!
An admirable novel February 11, 2006
HORAK (Zug, Switzerland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Alan Sherwood, a middle-aged solicitor is spending a holiday in Vif, a somnolent village on the Franco-Swiss border. As he catches a glimpse of a woman on the platform of the station, he is reminded of Sarah Miller who he once passionately loved.
Little by little the reader discovers who this woman was as Alan's recollections of his youth slowly unfold. The pattern of their relationship was quite strange because as soon as Alan saw Sarah, he knew that he should eternally seek to attract her attention. Though beautiful, Sarah was vain, unreliable, feckless, insouciant and literally unable to take any matter seriously, always eluding Alan's questions and never being quite capable of concentrating on the subject at hand. An elusive femme fatale, always expecting the world to attend to her needs, her only consistency being her extremely inconsistent nature. Perhaps that was partly why Alan was so irresistibly attracted to her. In any event Sarah never quite responded to his advances so Alan ended up by marrying Angela and in the course of the plot we discover that she died only after eleven months of marriage and after having given birth to a stillborn girl.
Mrs Brookner admirably shows through the numerous characters in her novel how people's states alter depending on whether they are in love, lonely, married, young, old or, like Alan, haunted by the memory of a woman he could never possess. The maturity and the depth of the author's perceptions are mesmerising and her fiction is powerful and disturbing.
 Psychologically acute & astute portrayal of the English June 21, 2001
chaharaza@hotmail.com (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Like her other novels, Anita Brookner's "Altered States" is neither a showy nor dramatic novel. It is very English, very middle class, very understated. In her inimitable and subdued but psychologically acute and astute style, the narrator of "Altered States", Alan Sherman, tells the reader about his life as a solicitor and a romantic. Well, er, his attempt at being a romantic because alas, as he himself admits, The Law does not tend to breed Romantics. And therefore, when he meets the fiery and mysterious Sarah and finds that he cannot understand nor take appropriate action with her, he marries the quiet and genteel Angela. The rest is history and disaster. (I hear, however, that her latest, "Bay of Angels" has a happy ending.) In this novel, Anita Brookner continues to dissect the inner life of her characters in unrelenting detail, which makes for dense, intense and pleasureable reading. And again, she pits an orderly, rational nature against a disorderly and irrational nature in ever-interesting ways. I liked this novel. The insights that Brookner's characters have about themselves, others and life are almost always fascinating and well, insightful. Her novels are careful studies in certain kinds of natures, mostly those with an introspective cast to them. This is a good thing, in a world that gives more attention, publicity and cache to extroversion, volume and outer image.
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