ALTERED STATES (En papel)

ANITA BROOKNER, VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL. RANDOM HOUSE, 1998
ISBN 9780679773252

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Datos del libro

Nº de páginas: 229 págs.
Editorial: VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL. RANDOM HOUSE
Lengua: INGLÉS
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
ISBN: 9780679773252
Año edicón: 1998
Plaza de edición: EE.UU

Sinopsis

Altered States.Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and walking shoes, a man thinks he may be looking at the woman for whom he ruined his life many years earlier. Alan Sherwood, a quiet English solicitor, remembers back to a time when he stepped briefly out of character to indulge in a liaison with Sarah Miller, an intriguing but heartless distant relative—only to find himself in a series of absurd situations that culminated in his marriage to Sarah's clinging, childlike friend Angela. With her compassionate portrait of a man who has paid a terrible price for his folly, Anita Brookner gives us a novel that it at once harrowing and humane. In the traditions of Henry James and Thomas Mann, Altered States is a beautifully rendered tale of loneliness, guilt, and erotic obsession...