Falling Slowly: A Novel - Rilegato

"Anita Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight."--The Washington Post Book World

"Brookner's control over the material is absolute."--Jane Smiley

"Under Brookner's transforming eye, the most ordinary lives become engrossing adventures."-- San Francisco Chronicle

"If Henry James were around, the only writer he'd be reading with complete approval would be Anita Brookner."--The New York Times Book Review

"Brookner is a writer of great skill and precision. Passages of brilliant writing abound, hard-won insights that startle us with Brookner's clarity and succinct intelligence."--Michael Dorris, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Brookner's impeccable craftsmanship and worldly irony make each of her novels memorable."--Publishers Weekly
Praise for Anita Brookner:

"Few contemporary novelists can match Ms. Brookner's consistently high level of achievement: the penetration of her vision, the sense of conviction in what she is doing, and the unforced elegance of her writing."--The Wall Street Journal
Praise for Visitors:

"Visitors may be the book Brookner has spent her life aiming for."--The New York Times Book Review

Anita Brookner is the author of eighteen finely crafted novels, including Visitors, Dolly, Fraud, Altered States, and Hotel du Lac, which won the Booker Prize. An international authority on eighteenth-century painting, she became the first female Slade Professor at Cambridge University. She lives in London.