A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner

A Closed Eye

Anita Brookner

255 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

3.68
based on 39 reviews

Moods

reflective: 100%

emotional: 33%


Pace

33% of readers chose medium
66% of readers chose slow
medium
slow

Plot or character driven?

100% of readers chose Character
Character

Strong character development?

50% of readers chose Yes
50% of readers chose No
Yes
No

Loveable characters?

50% of readers chose Complicated
50% of readers chose No
Complicated
No

Diverse cast of characters?

100% of readers chose No
No

Flaws of characters a main focus?

50% of readers chose Yes
50% of readers chose Complicated
Yes
Complicated

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