John Bayley （review date 18 June 1994）
SOURCE: “The Man Who Has Nothing to Offer,” in Spectator, June 18, 1994, p. 33
[In the following review, Bayley offers high praise for A Private View, terming Brookner “both infinitely various and adorably unique.”]
Adorable Anita Brookner! And as adorable as a man as she is as a woman! But steady the buffs, that's hardly something one can say in these unisex days. Nor would it be much more PC to call her as good a woman writer when she is exploring a man, as when she is delicately probing...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2001 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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