by Anita Brookner · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781400075300
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«The Rules of Engagement» is the psychological novel by Anita Brookner, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Elizabeth and Betsy become friends at a London school in the 1950s. As adults they meet again: Elizabeth is married to the kind but monotonous Digby, and Betsy is still looking for love. Their friendship will be subjected to the alienation and jealousy aroused by a man who seems to offer a way out.
It is Anita Brookner's twenty-second novel, published in 2003; this English edition is from 2005. The cover presents Brookner as winner of the Booker Prize and author of Hotel du Lac.
For readers of literary and psychological fiction focused on friendship, coupledom and the search for belonging.
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.
