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![]() ![]() ![]() At first, then, while writing letters to her married lover back home, Edith plays the role of the watcher, becoming the confidante to two hotel guests-each of whom represents one womanly approach to the problem of romance: regal widow Mrs. As in Brookner's Look at Me (1983), this Jamesian, Woolfian heroine is unmarried, wary, cerebral-torn between involvement and detachment, self-dramatization and self-deprecation. Edith Hope, 39, ""a writer of romantic fiction under a more thrusting name,"" has come to a small, quiet Swiss hotel in the off-season-to recover from (or atone for) some unspecified, scandalous ""lapse"" in her London behavior. ![]()
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