Bibliographic Description
85.03.W008: Brookner – The Debut
The | Debut | [rule 6.2 cm] | ANITA | BROOKNER | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS • A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE • NEW YORK
First Vintage Books Edition, March 1985
96 leaves, pp. 1-6 7-192
Contents: 1 blurbs and author photo, 2 “ALSO AVAILABLE IN VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES”, 3 title, 4 imprint, 5 fly-title, 6 blank, 7-192 The Debut.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by David Monteil; interior author photo by Jerry Bauer.
Copyright: ©1981. ISBN: 394-72856-4. Price: $5.95. The Debut was first published by Linden Press, a division of Simon & Schuster (US), and Jonathan Cape (UK), 1981.
Copies: JDP 1.1 (presumed)
Blurbs
- (front cover) Deft, lively, and quite touching. – Mary Gordon
- Since childhood Ruth Weiss has been escaping from life into books, and from the hothouse attentions of her tyrannical and eccentric parents into the gentler warmth of lovers and friends. Now Dr. Weiss, at forty, a quiet scholar devoted to the study of Balzac, is convinced that her life has been ruined by literature, and that once again she must make a new start in life.
- Precise and haunting….Brookner is a master at creating miniaturist portraits of attenuated lives. – The New York Times
- An almost flawless novel. – People
- Sly, detached humor has caused Brookner to be compared to Barbara Pym, but her vision is darker and more complex….Brookner’s ambitions exceed those of Pym’s genteel novels of manners and place her outside the genre, to which her writing, with its delicate shadings of character, otherwise seem suited. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Anita Brookner is a stunning writer. – Edna O’Brien
- Elegant, bittersweet…and very funny. If you read one book this year, this had better be it. – Fay Weldon