THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT - Softcover

"Beautifully rendered. . . . Unexpectedly and intensely moving." -"The New York Times Book Review "Few novelists can stand with Anita Brookner when it comes to the interior revelations of the human heart. . . . A single sentence, a certain expression, a look or a gesture convey worlds of meaning. . . . Every page has a felicity of wording that makes you want to reach for a pen, to underline passages that you don't want to forget." -"The Seattle Times "Beautifully written. . . . The Rules of Engagement" demonstrates the triumph of a keenly introspective mind." -"The Atlantic Monthly "The Rules of Engagement is vintage Brookner in the grace and ease of its language. The Booker Prize-winning author is a gifted storyteller, weaving in twists and turns that make the book hard to abandon." -"Chicago Tribune "Elizabeth Wetherall is clearly recognizable as one of Brookner's exquisite gem solitaries. . . . To read Brookner is to come into contact with a first-rate mind. . . . [She] is relentlessly existential. But also comic." -"Miami Herald "The story is told . . . with such elegance and polish that its surface-satiny, flawless and smooth as an onion, as always-holds a fascination equal to its content." -"The Washington Post Book World "One of the great strengths of Brookner's fiction: her ability to lay bare in limpid, measured, luminous prose her characters' least admirable, most desperate motivations." -"Los Angeles Times Book Review "[Brookner renders] her characters with intense fidelity. Few novelists have such a subtle, portrait artist's sense of their characters." -"San Francisco Chronicle "Brookner is a master of the art of the middle distance andas graceful as a matador when she uses the bright cape of her elegant Jamesian sentences to keep intimacy at bay." -"The Boston Globe