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Strangers
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Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner captures the magic and depth of real life with this story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears are universal.
 
Paul Sturgis is resigned to his bachelorhood and the quietude of his London flat. He occasionally pays obliging visits to his nearest living relative, Helena, his cousin’s widow. To avoid having to turn down her Christmas invitation, Paul sets off for a holiday in Venice where he meets Mrs. Vicky Gardner, an intriguing woman in the midst of a divorce. Upon his return to England, a former girlfriend, Sarah, reenters Paul’s world and these two women spark a transformation in Paul, culminating in a shocking decision.
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Anita Brookner. (2010). Strangers. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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      • content: "The beauty and precision of Anita Brookner's writing is rightly praised each time she publishes a novel, but what is less often remarked on is her daring.... A novel of sober brilliance."
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      • content: "Brookner faithfully presents the elderly person's dilemma: trying to figure out what to do with your old age.... Her astringent sense of humor, often unappreciated, is slyly evident."
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      • content: "[Brookner's] subject is the best one: the definition of human nature.... In Brookner's hands, in her descriptions so vivid and exact, it can be exhilarating."
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      • source: San Francisco Chronicle
      • content: "Brookner ... can't write a paragraph that doesn't engage your mind or tug at your heart.... Lovely."
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      • content: "Shares keen insights on the emotional toll of a painful past."
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      • content: "In the hands of a lesser novelist, [Brookner's] stories of human frailty would be depressing, but she manages to make them sparkle with life--and always with hope.... Absorbing."
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      • content: "An elegant, heartfelt novel--seldom have the afflictions of old age had such an astute chronicler."
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      • content: "A story about empowerment in making life choices, a lesson in breaking away from old habits to find the spirit that drives you and makes life worthwhile.... Extraordinary in how thoughtful it is and how truthful it feels.... Strangers flows with an easy formality that is a joy to experience in and of itself."
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        April 13, 2009
        Brookner's 24th book is an often monotonous meditation on an elderly man's solitary existence. Much of the first several chapters are dedicated to 72-year-old Paul Sturgis's stuffy reflections on his attitudes toward life and loneliness. The narrative shows some promise when Sturgis meets recently divorced Vicky Gardner on a trip to Venice, but their ensuing relationship—in Venice and later, when they both return to London—is mired in a painfully polite restraint. As if in a parody of English manners, Vicky and Sturgis labor over countless afternoon teas without forming anything resembling human contact. Vicky often approaches moments of vulnerable honesty, only to act appalled if he shows any interest in these rare glimpses of humanity. Sturgis's interactions with his ex-lover Sarah, meanwhile, are slightly more candid, but these merely highlight Sturgis's painfully apparent dull formality. (They also give him more material to pontificate over.) While the novel happens in the current day, the occasional mobile phone feels as out of place as it would in, say, one of the Henry James novels that could be the inspiration for this tedious exercise in drawing-room politesse.

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