Altered States; Author: Brookner, Anita; Reader: Crossley, Steven; Audio Product ~ Analog Audio Cassette

Author: Brookner, Anita; Reader: Crossley, Steven
Isis (Large Print); 6 cassettes; Audio Product ~ Analog Audio Cassette
Published: May 1997
Dual Dolphin
ISBN: 0753101777
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Like many of Brookner's 15 previous novels (including, most recently, Incidents in the Rue Laugier, 1996), this one focuses on particularly bright, despairingly self-aware members of the British upper-middle class and upper class caught unawares in hapless romances. The retrospective narrative is told by Alan Sherwood, a successful, discriminating middle-aged barrister who looks back at the defining moment of his life: the suicide years before of his young wife, Angela. Her death is assumed, by Alan and most of his circle, to have been at least partly triggered by Alan's pursuit ofthe fey Sarah, a woman as heartless as she is beautiful. Brookner remains our great poet of loneliness and loss. - Kirkus