{"product_id":"brief-lives-0679737332","title":"Brief Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0679737332\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brookner, Anita\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this novel, Booker Prize-winning author Anita Brookner confirms her reputation as an unparalleled observer of social nuance and deeply felt longings. Brief Lives chronicles an unlikely friendship: that between the flamboyant, monstrously egocentric Julia and the modest, self-effacing Fay, who is at once fascinated and appalled by Julia's excesses. Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership -- and by a guilty secret -- Julia and Fay develop an intense bond that is nonetheless something less than intimacy, a relationship in which we see our own uneasy compromises, not only with other people, but with life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67943649214752,"sku":"NEW0679737332","price":18.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71NYR7JBN1L.jpg?v=1792785449","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/brief-lives-0679737332","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}