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...With reporting by Elizabeth L. Bland and Hannah Bloch/New York
...Anita Brookner's 12th book comes as a welcome surprise--just when it looked as if she had settled into Barbara Pym's world of lonely females without Pym's wit and trenchant insight into character. Written from the point of view of a just retired bachelor businessman, George Bland, who becomes enthralled with a heedless, scheming young woman, A Private View (Random House; 242 pages) is not only wise but funny...
...victim. Unlike Katy's, his spirit is dull and earthbound. He remembers his own humble roots before he prospered in a packaging business, before his best friend-a carefree chap whose background was similar to his-died of cancer. As the fool in George plots marriage, the essential George-bland-walks all over London, even stopping by his dead friend's apartment in an effort to hang on to his sanity...
...ANITA BROOKNER'S 12th book comes as a welcome surprise-just when it looked as if she had settled into Barbara Pym's world of lonely females without Pym's wit and trenchant insight into character. Written from the point of view of a just retired bachelor businessman, George Bland, who becomes enthralled with a heedless, scheming young woman, A Private View (Random House; 242 pages; $23) is not only wise but funny...
Katy Gibb is one of the better comic creations to come along in recent fiction, a moody, slovenly girl whose main weapon in life's wars is a brazen will. Bland, a decent soul at sea without his job, never does learn how she found out that the apartment across the hall from his was vacant during the tenants' vacation. She makes it her squat and him her quarry...