Visitors (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Anita Brookner
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: Two weeks in September in the 1990’s
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Dorothea (“Thea”) May, Kitty Levinson, Austin Levinson, Gerald Levinson, Ann Levinson, David Newhouse, Steve Best, Molly Goodman, Harold Goodman
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Marriage, Alienation, England or English people, Women, Single people, Loneliness, Old age or elderly people
- Locales: London, England
The publication of each new novel by Anita Brookner is greeted by critics who call it an unrewarding reworking of familiar situations and themes. Brookner always seems to present a youngish single woman (or, as the author herself ages, an older single woman) who consents to a life of such lonely and passive frustration as to be pathological. Some hopes are raised when persons more energetic than she enter her life, but these promises come to little or nothing. As one of her heroines (Edith in 1984’s Hotel du Lac) explains, such women are tortoises. Although romance novels sell...
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