{"product_id":"hotel-du-lac-a-novel-man-booker-prize-winner-9780679759324","title":"Hotel Du Lac: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner)","description":"\u003cb\u003eBOOKER PRIZE WINNER - When romance writer Edith Hope's life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, she flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore her to her senses. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Brookner's most absorbing novel ... wryly realistic ... graceful and attractive.\" --Anne Tyler, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question \"Why love?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANITA BROOKNER was born in London and, apart from several years in Paris, was a lifelong Londoner. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. She is the author of twenty-seven books, including the Booker Prize-winning novel \u003ci\u003eHotel Du Lac\u003c\/i\u003e. She died in 2016.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50648867635474,"sku":"9780679759324","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_76041c72-449f-4be3-af85-020d134ef9a8.jpg?v=1733251328","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hotel-du-lac-a-novel-man-booker-prize-winner-9780679759324","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}