Strangers
by Anita Brookner
Book Details
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 28/01/2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-13: 9780141040264
General & Literary Fiction
Author Biography
Anita Brookner was born in London in 1928 and, apart from several years in Paris, has lived there ever since. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. Strangers is her twenty-fourth novel.
Brief Description
Paul Sturgis is retired and lives alone in South Kensington. He dines alone, taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers. His only acquaintance is a widowed cousin whom he visits on Sundays. Unable to make sense of his solitary nature, and fearing death among strangers, he wonders whether at last he might be ready for companionship.