The Resource Making things better : a novel, Anita Brookner
Making things better : a novel, Anita Brookner
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- Summary
- "Captures the quandaries of aging, the misunderstanding of an increasingly modern, alien world; awkward conversations with passersby; even more awkward conversations with passersby, even more awkward encounters with longtime friends and acquaintances; the anxieties posed by age and uncertainty and the bizarre, magnificent self-knowledge that perhaps only age, reflection, and experience can bring."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Note
- Originally published in England under title: The next big thing. London : Viking/Penguin, 2002
- Isbn
- 9781400031061
- Label
- Making things better : a novel
- Title
- Making things better
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Anita Brookner
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Captures the quandaries of aging, the misunderstanding of an increasingly modern, alien world; awkward conversations with passersby; even more awkward conversations with passersby, even more awkward encounters with longtime friends and acquaintances; the anxieties posed by age and uncertainty and the bizarre, magnificent self-knowledge that perhaps only age, reflection, and experience can bring."--Jacket
- Award
- New York Times Notable Book, 2003
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 071177
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brookner, Anita
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6052.R5816
- LC item number
- M35 2003
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Middle-aged men
- Midlife crisis
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Making things better : a novel, Anita Brookner
- Note
- Originally published in England under title: The next big thing. London : Viking/Penguin, 2002
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9781400031061
- Lccn
- 2002069860
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- 49844091
- (OCoLC)49844091
- Label
- Making things better : a novel, Anita Brookner
- Note
- Originally published in England under title: The next big thing. London : Viking/Penguin, 2002
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9781400031061
- Lccn
- 2002069860
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- 49844091
- (OCoLC)49844091
Subject
- trueMiddle-aged men
- trueLoners
- Middle-aged men -- Fiction
- Midlife crisis -- Fiction
- trueMidlife crisis in men
- trueNurses
- trueObedience
- Psychological fiction
- trueSelf-discovery in men
- trueSolitude
- trueEccentric men
- trueExiles
- trueGermany
- trueIntrospection
- trueJewish families
- trueLondon, England
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