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Hotel Du Lac: Complete & Unabridged (4 Cassettes) |  | Author: Anita Brookner
Creator: Anna Massey
Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 2576450
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.8 x 1.3
ISBN: 0745158102
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780745158105
ASIN: 0745158102
Publication Date: May 1987
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Condition: ex library, usual stamps/markings, plays fine
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Edith Hope (a.k.a. romance author Veronica Wilde) has been banished by her friends to a stately hotel in Switzerland. During her stay she befriends some of the other guests, each of whom has his or her own tale. Edith struggles to come to terms with her career and love--the lack, the benefits, and the meaning thereof.
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 Not her best by any means... September 24, 2008
Anita Brookner has a rare gift for portraying loneliness, exclusion, repression and so on, and for exposing the subtle psychological manipulations and maneouverings in human relationships, but they are scarcely in evidence in this lightweight and romantic offering. Her infatuation with the manners of the upper middle classes has always been a bit of a problem, and some of the characters at the Hotel du Lac are ridiculous in their pretentious and empty headed strategies, which the protagonist details in her unsent letters with an equally empty headed obsessiveness. The romantic interest, Mr Neville, is a laughable caricature, and her longing for the married and unavailable David comes across as the rather bored and stupid longing of a woman with enough intelligence to know better. Infidelity was hardly shocking when this book was written, but for us to sanction and approve it we need a bit more grit and angst and passion. It already seems quite dated in style, a slightly risque Jane Austen without the technical skill, and for Edith to credit herself with any kind of resemblence to Virginia Woolf is literary blasphemy! Brookner has written much better and much more movingly than this. Although her writing is technically excellent, here she seems to have had in mind a rather regrettable section of the mass market - the bored bourgeoise housewife preoccupied with rich men and beautiful clothes. Dear dear.
 Still the best Booker prize winner October 14, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Beautifully written and hugely entertaining. Pity that Miss Brookner never wrote another high comedy of quite the same order...
A novel of extraordinary delicacy August 8, 2005
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
In her novel, Mrs Brookner portrays a middle-aged writer of romantic fiction, Edith Hope. People claim that there is a certain resemblance with Virginia Woolf in her features. At any rate her novels are published under the pen-name of Vanessa Wilde and they bear such titles as "The Sun at Midnight", "Beneath the Visiting Mood" or "The Stone and the Star". Edith doesn't seem to hold writing in high esteem. She describes this activity more like a compulsion: "she bent her head obediently to her daily task of fantasy and obfuscation", enjoying a rest "after her obscure and unnoticeable exertions". In fact she even considers reading as a kind of cure for the psychologically diseased: "Fiction, the time honoured resource of the ill-at-ease..."
After settling down at the Hotel du Lac - set in a small village on the Swiss shore of lake Geneva - Edith meets her extravagant fellow lodgers: Iris Pusey and her daughter Jennifer, Mme de Bonneuil and Monica accompanied by her insufferable dog Kiki. During her numerous discussions with these women, Edith starts reflecting on the life she has led so far and on love in general. The reader also learns about her past and her troubled relationship with her mother. And it is not before the end of the novel that we discover why Edith came to the Hotel du Lac, why she left London in such a haste and what exactly the "unfortunate lapse" was which brought her to her temporary exile in Switzerland.
Like one critic said about "Hotel du Lac": "Novels like Anita Brookner's are why we read novels".
 Lacks passion December 10, 2001
10 out of 35 found this review helpful
I was extremely disappointed in this book. The woman is supposed to be in love, yet in the height of its expression, she utters "Oh David, oh David". She has all the passion of a dead jellyfish. It read like a creative writing student had sat down in a hotel to describe the guests in a rather superficial way.Its one redeeming feature is that if this truly trivial piece can win the Booker Prize, then there really is hope for anyone who can pick up a pen!
Reasons for being single January 27, 2000
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
Very subtle and understanding analysis of how a woman who likes her own company could choose singleness...Deep and entertaining reading!
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