Poyang
Poyang or P'o-yang , shallow lake, c.1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km), N Jiangxi prov., SE China; one of China's largest lakes. It serves as a natural overflow reservoir for the Chang River, with which it is connected by canal. It receives the Gan River and several smaller rivers. The lake basin is one of China's richest rice-producing regions.
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`Fraud': a rare misstep by Anita Brookner
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/4/1993; ; 700+ words
; FRAUD By Anita Brookner Random House, 262 pp., $21 "Fraud" is Anita Brookner's 11th novel, an entertaining...prevalent." It is hard to believe that Anita Brookner, beady-eyed ironist, could settle...
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ANITA BROOKNER'S SHY, DISCERNING EYE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/5/1989; ; 700+ words
; NEWYORK - Anita Brookner is so modest and elegant at once that...It's the kind of observation that Brookner readers would appreciate, for the...flung territories of the heart. Anita Brookner writes about the saddest and grandest...
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Happily ever after, almost Anita Brookner's latest novel is a reminder of just how good she can be, says Caroline Moore
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 1/21/2001; ; 700+ words
; The Bay of Angels by Anita Brookner Viking, pounds 16.99, 217 pp pounds 14.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 ANITA BROOKNER has been the victim of her own success. Her fiction explores...
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Hearts that break silently; Anita Brookner offers us another polite but profoundly solitary heroine.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 1/10/2006; 700+ words
; ...been a novelist more skilled than Anita Brookner at producing detailed portraits...are likely also to be drawn to Brookner's sparer - but equally insightful...book editor. Leaving Home By Anita Brookner Random House 212 pp., $23...
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Anita Brookner's Quartet in Autumn
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/12/1989; ; 700+ words
; LATECOMERS By Anita Brookner Pantheon. 248 pp. $16.95 ANITA BROOKNER's eighth novel will not be to all tastes, as it is less what we customarily call a novel than a meditation: a leisurely, ruminative consideration of the strange yet powerful...
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Books: Criticism with dignity Rupert Christiansen enjoys Anita Brookner's cultural essays
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 10/19/1997; ; 700+ words
; Soundings by Anita Brookner Harvill, pounds 16.99, 214 pp ANITA BROOKNER's detractors brand her fiction airless and sour...panic at the shutting of the door." Of how many Anita Brookner heroines could that also be said? Here, however...
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Anita Brookner snubbed by Oxford for honorary PhD; londoner's Diary.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 6/24/2002; 700+ words
; ...have won the Booker Prize, but Anita Brookner still finds the holy grail of...of us have been trying to get Anita Brookner an honorary doctorate for years...University spokesman tells me. "Anita Brookner was not among them and will have...
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Wednesday's Book: Soundings by Anita Brookner
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/29/1997; ; 690 words
; ...collection of essays and reviews, Anita Brookner chides writers such as Rousseau...therefore, is rather insulting. Anita Brookner is a marvellous novelist, about...don't we know something about Anita Brookner after all? The answer is yes...
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Anita Brookner's one-woman antidote
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 1/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; THE BAY OF ANGELS by Anita Brookner (Viking, 16.99) ANITA Brookner has brought forth a new novel, her 20th...tasteful and sombre: just like the book. Anita Brookner is a one-woman antidote to a cheerful view...
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The Rules of Engagement; Anita Brookner
Newspaper article from: Solares Hill; 11/26/2004; ; 700+ words
; When you pick up an Anita Brookner novel, you enter a universe that...American and the British literary scene. Brookner writes about the same kinds of people...The real questions that interest Brookner are moral ones: How we behave and...
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Anita Brookner
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Anita Brookner Anita Brookner (born 1928), a British art historian specializing in 18th-and 19th-century painting, was the first woman to hold the rank of Slade Professor at Cambridge University (1967-68). Brookner is also a successful...
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Brookner, Anita
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
BROOKNER, Anita Nationality: British. Born: London...Studies: Four British Women Novelists: Anita Brookner, Margaret Drabble, Iris Murdoch...Wharton, sometimes simultaneously, Anita Brookner's brief, exquisitely wrought novels...
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Beckett, Mary
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...deftly and economically capture the details of private, interior lives. She also shares the polite detachment of Anita Brookner, but Beckett's heroines seem one step closer to madness, fraught as they are by random IRA raids, fires, and...
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