William McPherson （review date 10 February 1985）
SOURCE: “Anita Brookner: The Autumn of Romance,” in Washington Post Book World, February 10, 1985, pp. 1-2.
[In the following review, McPherson offers a favorable assessment of Hotel du Lac.]
Edith Hope, the protagonist of this highly acclaimed novel from Britain, winner of the 1984 Booker Prize, has done an “apparently dreadful thing,” although the reader does not know exactly what that thing is or how dreadful until two-thirds of the way through Anita Brookner's slim and elegant and...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2001 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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