Hotel du lac anita brookner review6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The other women at Du Lac are also in some type of exile and in them Edith reflects on who she is and who she might become if she chooses to remain on the path she's been traveling. Edith and the reader are trapped! Although the story unfolds at a snails pace and some may even toss it aside one should look at Edith's story more as a character study of those also staying at the hotel. ![]() Edith describes everything in her room the color of cooked veal, a misty shroud encompasses the lake and surrounding mountains. Exile at Hotel Du Lac at first repulses Edith and also perhaps the reader. Romance writer, Edith Hope, has been advised by her friends to get out of town, regroup and think about the dreadful thing she's done. ![]() Hotel Du Lac, written nearly 100 years after Chopin's "The Awakening" and set in the 1980's proves to be a document as to how far women have come. ![]() Whenever I read a certain kind of woman's novel where the protagonist is either middle-aged, tired and/or disgraced, I tend to worry about, what I call, "The Awakening" effect where a woman may find, when there are no other options available to her, that there's only one way out of a bad situation. ![]()
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