The next big thing

Anita Brookner

first published 2002 Penguin, 2003 246 pages

"At seventy-three, Herz is facing an increasingly bewildering world. He cannot see his place in it or even work out what to do with his final years. Questions and misunderstandings haunt Herz like old ghosts. Should he travel, sell his flat, or propose marriage to a friend he has not seen in tirthy years? The letters he writes and does not send and the passers-by he encounters remind him how out of touch he is, how d...

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Next Big Thing edition · 2016 · Penguin Books, Limited · 256 pages · 9780241977842
Next Big Thing edition · 2013 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780241965535
The next big thing edition · 2003 · Penguin · 246 pages
The next big thing edition · 2003 · Penguin Books · 246 pages · 9780141013206
The Next Big Thing hardcover · 2002 · Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C · 328 pages · 9780754017967
The next big thing edition · 2002 · Viking · 246 pages

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