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Hearts that break silently; Anita Brookner offers us another polite but profoundly solitary heroine.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book Review)

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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 20060110
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Byline: Marjorie Kehe

It was Henry David Thoreau who so famously opined that most men lead lives of quiet desperation. But there has perhaps never been a novelist more skilled than Anita Brookner at producing detailed portraits of what an exquisite female version of that desperation might look like.

Over the years, Brookner has offered us more than one heroine who glides through life thoughtfully and decorously. She measures her words with caution and exercises infinite care not to disturb life's harmonious surface.

But the practiced ears of Brookner's readers will ...

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