The Next Big Thing
  • Published: 1 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977842
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $26.00

The Next Big Thing

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Longlisted for the 2002 Man Booker, and from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac

'This would soon be a new day, all too closely resembling the others, the normal days of his present existence, in which nothing happened nor could be expected to happen'

At seventy-three Herz is facing an increasingly bewildering world. He cannot see his place in it or even work out what to do with his final years. Questions and misunderstandings haunt Herz like old ghosts. Should he travel, sell his flat, or propose marriage to an old friend he has not seen in thirty years? Herz believes that he must do something, only he doesn't know what this next big thing in life should be . . .
  • Published: 1 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977842
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Anita Brookner

Date: 2013-08-06
Anita Brookner, who is an international authority on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century painting, teaches at the Courtauld Institute of Art. In 1968 she was Slade Professor at Cambridge, the first woman ever to hold this position. She is the author of Watteau, The Genius of the Future; Greuze; Jacques-Louis David; and three other novels, A Start in Life, Providence and Look at Me.

Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years in Paris, has lived there ever since. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. Leaving Home is her twenty-third novel.

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Praise for The Next Big Thing

Impressive. Beautifully written with flashes of charm and wisdom

Sunday Times

Infinitely moving

Literary Review

Beautifully written, it draws you in and holds you fast

Daily Mail

Brookner has no rivals when it comes to anatomizing complex emotions. Without question, an exceptional piece of writing.

Sunday Telegraph

Brookner is a brilliant writer, her prose near perfect, and she captures extremely poignantly the loneliness, the anxieties, the insecurity of old age.

Sunday Independent

Brookner is a great novelist

Evening Standard