{"product_id":"latecomers-isbn-9780679726685","title":"Latecomers","description":"In \u003ci\u003eLatecomers\u003c\/i\u003e the author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eHotel Du Lac\u003c\/i\u003e extends her range to produce a glowing masterpiece about the ambiguous pleasures of friendship and domesticity. Hartmann and Fibich are \"latecomers\" to England, brought over as children from Nazi Germany. No two men could be more dissimilar: Hartmann is an expansive, deliberately unreflective voluptuary; Fibich, the ascetic, lives in a perpetual swoon of homesickness and terror. But as imagined by Anita Brookner, their fifty-year friendship becomes a transcendently funny and touching model for the ways in which human beings come to terms with the tragedy of living.\"Brookner's most touching novel...She has transcended the struggle between men and women to arrive at...truth; as if having solved the mysteries of love, she has moved on to the meaning of life.\"--\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brookner's illuminating depiction of her characters' inner lives makes \u003cb\u003eLatecomers\u003c\/b\u003e a brilliant, accomplished work.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnita Brookner\u003c\/b\u003e was born in London and, apart from several years in Paris, was a lifelong Londoner. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. She is the author of twenty-seven books, including the Booker Prize–winning novel \u003ci\u003eHotel Du Lac\u003c\/i\u003e. She died in 2016.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301836345573,"sku":"NP9780679726685","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679726685.jpg?v=1767731186","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/latecomers-isbn-9780679726685","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}