Hotel du Lac (ISBN 0679759328) is a Booker Prize winning novel (1984) by Anita Brookner. The book was turned into a 1986 television movie of the same name, starring Anna Massey as Edith Hope.
Reviews
Hotel du Lac received rave notices on its way to winning the much coveted Booker.
- Anne Tyler in The New York Times Book Review said: "Brookner's most absorbing novel...wryly realistic...graceful and attractive."
- The New York Times have praised Brookner as "one of the finest novelists of her generation."
- Newsweek: "Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."
- The Sunday Times: "A remarkable novel... Anita Brookner's best."
- The Spectator said: "A classic - a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now."
Last updated: 08-19-2006 14:43:24