In Falling Slowly, Anita Brookner brilliantly evokes the origins, nature, and consequences of human isolation.
She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988..
About the Author: Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years in Paris, has lived there ever since.
Painfully wise, the Sharpe sisters embody the conflicting yearnings Jane Austen delineated in Sense and Sensibility.
And as each woman awakens to the urgency of her loneliness, illness threatens to sever them both from the one happiness they have grown to count on: each other.
Miriam, usually calm and lucid, slides headlong into an affair with a charming, handsome--and very married--man.
Beatrice, a talented if uninspired pianist, gives up performing, a decision motivated by stiffening joints and the sudden realization that her art has never brought her someone to love.
As middle age settles upon the Sharpe sisters, regret over chances not taken casts a shadow over their contented existence.
In Falling Slowly, Anita Brookner brilliantly evokes the origins, nature, and consequences of human isolation
