Fraud (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Anita Brookner
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: London and Paris
- Principal Characters: Anna Durrant, Amy Durrant, Lawrence Halliday, Vicki Halliday, Mrs. Marsh, Nick Marsh, Philippa Barnard, Marie-France Forestier
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Love or romance, Paris, Polygamy or bigamy, Adultery, London, 1990’s, Middle age, Christmas
- Locales: Paris, France, London, England
Fraud is Anita Brookner’s twelfth novel in as many years. The last three of these might almost be considered a trilogy on the dilemma faced by docile, obedient women trying to find an authentic life in a social system that little values their strength of character, modest demeanor, and physical plainness. Fraud differs from Brief Lives (1991) and A Closed Eye (1992) in ending “happily”; if the three novels do form a loose trilogy, then, Brookner is suggesting that a measure of happiness is possible for the woman who finds her own way on her own terms,...
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