by Anita Brookner · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140138924
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«Lewis Percy» is the novel by Anita Brookner, published by Penguin in paperback (272 pages, in English).
Lewis Percy, a young academic who has devoted his thesis to the notion of heroism in the nineteenth-century French novel, lives with his sick mother. When she dies, he is left alone and disoriented, and the narrative follows his attempts to rebuild his life, between relationships, work, and the search for a place in the world.
The novel originally appeared in 1989; this Penguin Books edition was published on August 30, 1990.
Anita Brookner was an English novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded the 1984 Booker–McConnell Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac.
