Latecomers, Anita Brookner — 1st Edition

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Latecomers, Anita Brookner — 1st Edition

Name: Latecomers, Anita Brookner — 1st Edition
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Publication: London, Jonathan Cape, 1988

Formatting: 8vo, pp. 248.

Condition Report: Very Good. The textured black boards are crisp and the binding remains firm and square. The text block edges show light, even toning customary for the paper stock of this era, without any notable spotting or blemishes. The dust jacket is bright and complete, displaying minimal edge-wear and retaining the deep colour of the front panel illustration, making for a handsome, well-preserved copy.

Catalogue Note: First UK edition, first printing. The text is unillustrated, and the volume bears no previous ownership inscriptions or bookplates.

Due to the author's established popularity and prior Booker Prize win, this edition was published in a substantial initial print run and remains common on the open antiquarian market today.

Latecomers explores the deep, lifelong friendship between Hartmann and Fibich, two men who met at an English boarding school after arriving as child refugees from Nazi Germany. Now established in comfortable, bourgeois London, they must navigate the emotional voids left by their pasts and the differing ways they have coped with their displacement. Brookner masterfully examines their contrasting personalities, Hartmann's acceptance of life's surface pleasures versus Fibich's anxious, introspective search for meaning, delivering a poignant meditation on memory, survival, and the enduring bonds of chosen family.

Book Condition: Very Good

Book Authors: Anita Brookner

Book Publisher: Jonathan Cape

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Fiction

Genre: Modern Fiction

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 248

Book Publication Year: 1988

Book Publication Date:

Book Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: London, United Kingdom

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