Hotel Du Lac
by Anita Brookner
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Author: Anita BrooknerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1995-10-03
ISBN: 0679759328
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Vintage
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Summary: 3 Stars
I ordered this book because it was the March selection for my book club. Ms. Brookner has a distinctive writing style and a rather clever sense of humour, but the story she tells is age-old and a bit worn -- despite the two major twists and turns she carefully builds up to. It's a story about a still-single, perhaps destined to be single forever, fiction writer who writes romance stories that are alluded to as being rather old-fashioned, just like their creator. Edith Hope is old-fashioned in the way that she cooks and waits upon her man, but he is married to another woman. Edith hopes (how clever Ms. Brookner) for something better, and the setting for this hope is the Hotel du Lac where other single women migrate before the bleak winter season settles into the Swiss landscape and their beings. This setting is where the age-old scenario of sarcastic, biting soundbites of cat fight and cutting glares is exchanged between women competing for the scarce male attention at the hotel. Even with Ms. Brookner's writing flair and unexpected turns in the story line, it lacks the oomph to make it anything more than diverting read. Actually, the book club discussion was much better than the book itself.
Summary of Hotel Du Lac
In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a psudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to resore her to her senses.But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive.
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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