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  Falling Slowly (Paperback) By (author) Anita Brookner

  

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  Short Description for Falling SlowlyThe Sharpe sisters, Beatrice and Miriam, lead lives of quiet sophistication and routine. But this careful and contemplative existence is suddenly interrupted in mid-life by several complicated men.
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  • Publisher: Vintage Books USA
  • Published: 04 January 2000
  • Format: Paperback 240 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780375704246 ISBN 10: 0375704248
  • Sales rank: 484,978

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• In Falling Slowly, Anita Brookner brilliantly evokes the origins, nature, and consequences of human isolation. As middle age settles upon the Sharpe sisters, regret over chances not taken casts a shadow over their contented existence. Beatrice, a talented if uninspired pianist, gives up performing, a decision motivated by stiffening joints and the sudden realization that her art has never brought her someone to love. Miriam, usually calm and lucid, slides headlong into an affair with a charming, handsome--and very married--man. And as each woman awakens to the urgency of her loneliness, illness threatens to sever them both from the one happiness they have grown to count on: each other. Painfully wise, the Sharpe sisters embody the conflicting yearnings Jane Austen delineated in Sense and Sensibility.