Anita Brookner — Latecomers

Flamingo 1992 Paperback, 191pp. "" RUTH RENDELL, 'Observer' "The best novel Anita Brookner has written since the Booker Prize-winning 'Hotel du Lac'. It marks an advance into new territory, while preserving all her old sharp intelligence and shrewdness. A novel about human relationships, focusing, unusually for Brookner, on two male characters. Hartmann and Fibich met at school and forty years later they can no more think of living apart than of divorcing their wives. This book deals with their gradual coming to terms with the emotional gaps in their lives.", (ISBN: 9780006545224). Good.