A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner

A Closed Eye

Anita Brookner

272 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

fiction literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying p...

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Community Reviews Summary of 33 reviews

Moods

reflective 100%
emotional 33%

Pace

slow 66%
medium 33%

Plot- or character-driven?

Character: 100%

Strong character development?

No: 50% | Yes: 50%

Loveable characters?

No: 50% | It's complicated: 50%

Diverse cast of characters?

No: 100%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

It's complicated: 50% | Yes: 50%

Average rating

3.61

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