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A review by 807gmadre
Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
3.0
A Sleeper = is something that succeeds when no one expected it to do so. How do you measure success? Winning the Booker Prize in 1984 certainly qualifies. Sitting at 3.59 after 16, 951 ratings on Goodreads--not so much!
What kept me engaged in this disconsolate story, (where the narrator is all about observation and introspection, with nothing much actually happening to her or around her), was the beautiful dreamlike prose paired with witticisms.
"She stepped into the corridor, vibrant with absence."
"The hotel room was the colour of over-cooked veal."
"She had failed to scale the heights of consumerism that were apparently as open to her as to anyone else."
"Everything she knew she had learned from Father. Think again, Edith. You have made a false equation."
Recommended to anyone who likes to read works written by Daphne du Maurier (similar atmospheric tone) or Virginia Woolf (similar messages about womanhood).
What kept me engaged in this disconsolate story, (where the narrator is all about observation and introspection, with nothing much actually happening to her or around her), was the beautiful dreamlike prose paired with witticisms.
"She stepped into the corridor, vibrant with absence."
"The hotel room was the colour of over-cooked veal."
"She had failed to scale the heights of consumerism that were apparently as open to her as to anyone else."
"Everything she knew she had learned from Father. Think again, Edith. You have made a false equation."
Recommended to anyone who likes to read works written by Daphne du Maurier (similar atmospheric tone) or Virginia Woolf (similar messages about womanhood).