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Facing life alone at an advanced age, Julius Herz cannot shake the sense that he should be elsewhere, doing other things. Walking through bustling streets that seem increasingly alien to him, he’s confronted by life’s pressing questions with an urgency he has never known before: what do we owe the people in our lives? How should we fill our days? Feeling fortified despite the growing ache in his heart, Herz finds himself also blessed with a stirring sense of exhilaration. After a lifetime of deferring to others’ stronger wills, he faces a future of possibility, the only constraint the deeply ingrained habits of his mind. Profound and deeply resonant, Making Things Better explores the quandaries of aging, longing, and self-discovery with transfixing precision and spellbinding acuity.
From the solitary bachelor in Henry James's Beast in the Jungle to the solitary butler in Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, fiction is filled with memorable hesitators. Anita Brookner is the most intrepid contemporary explorer of this terrain, which she refers to, in Making Things Better, as the ''unlived life.'' In the 21 novels she's written over the past 21 years, she has created a distinctive world, a world of widows and widowers, of the divorced and the never-married -- lonely people who yearn for connection with others at the same time as they cautiously guard their privacy. If you look at the descriptions on her book jackets, you might conclude that her range is narrow. Yet Brookner, who won a Booker Prize in 1984 for Hotel du Lac, inhabits her main characters so persuasively, commits her imagination so thoroughly to each novel, that almost every time she returns to her territory, the results are powerful and fresh. — Brian Morton
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