Lewis Percy
  • Published: 17 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977798
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $32.99

Lewis Percy

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2 Jun 2016
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17 Oct 2016
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A reissue of the 1989 novel from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac

'The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.'

Destined to be a haunter of libraries, Lewis's cautious progress through life reveals to him only his own shortcomings. Estranged from his wife and daughter, he searches for an alternative. This novel presents the life and aspirations of one man who remains out of step with his times.
  • Published: 17 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977798
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Anita Brookner

Date: 2013-08-06
Anita Brookner, who is an international authority on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century painting, teaches at the Courtauld Institute of Art. In 1968 she was Slade Professor at Cambridge, the first woman ever to hold this position. She is the author of Watteau, The Genius of the Future; Greuze; Jacques-Louis David; and three other novels, A Start in Life, Providence and Look at Me.

Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years in Paris, has lived there ever since. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. Leaving Home is her twenty-third novel.

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Praise for Lewis Percy

How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.

Tessa Hadley on 'A Start in Life', Guardian Summer Reads, 2015

'A searching study of innocence, and the limitations of innocence.'

London Review of Books

Elegant, nuanced; at times almost Jamesian in its convolution and subtlety.

L.A. Times
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