Incidents in the Rue Laugier

by Anita Brookner and Brookner Anita

Book Overview

Maud Gonthier yearns for an escape from the cocoon of the bourgeois modesty. The splendid, caddish David Tyler appears to offer one. In this stylish, deeply knowing novel by the Booker Prize winning author of Hotel du Lac, Maud's seduction creates a chemistry of longing, sensuality, and betrayal--with a surprising climax.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679765123
• ISBN13: 9780679765127
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

A woman looking for herself in all the wrong places

When your mother laments days of French aristocracy and raises you to respectability, you rebel by choosing an English cad. Meanwhile, a respectable, bookish man yearns for you. Maud Gonthier, like Emma Bovary, confuses respectability with boredom, but unlike Emma, Maud manages to survive the folly of her desires and whims. Maud is intensely likeable in this protrait told by her daughter.

A Searingly Intense Love Story

Few writers ever attain the depth of character and emotion so succinctly captured by Anita Brookner. Her characters beckon us to read on for as we examine their lives, we find we cannot cannot help but be moved to investigate the deepest feelings and motivations in our own lives as well. Within the novel,Brookner herself becomes philosopher as she wonders about the mystery of our emotional desires and why the events of our lives turn out the way they do. Brookner captivates the reader with her own special magic; with prose that seems almost poetic and with characters so beautifully drawn they are unforgettable.

Incidents in the Rue Laugier

For fans of Anita Brookner, this one is almost the best. Did not find it depressing at all, on the contrary. The elegance and persuasiveness of the language is sheer pleasure, not a single false note in the characters. Ms. Brookner is a genius, ranks up there with Virginia Woolf.

Wonderful - a vision of one possible life

This book is a wonderful example of practicality, romance, love and responsibility. The people in this book are very human and so are all their aches, pains and actions. cause and effect seems to be the main theme. I recommend this book to anyone who doesn't expect every book to be "fiction lite".