Volume 36, Number 9 · June 1, 1989
Exiles
By Rosemary Dinnage
Latecomers
by Anita Brookner
Pantheon, 248 pp., $16.95
Baumgartner's Bombay
by Anita Desai
Knopf, 230 pp., $18.95
Twenty years ago the art historian Anita Brookner was Slade Professor at Cambridge, author of a book on Watteau and then, within a few years, of books on Greuze and on Jacques-Louis David. Her first novel, A Start in Life, came out only in 1981; and since then she has written one in each summer vacation, and collected two literary prizes and a television adaptation. Latecomers is her eighth novel.
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