Incidents in the Rue Laugier
/ Anita Brookner
- New York : Random House , c1995
- 233 p. ; 21 cm
Maud Gonthier yearns for an escape from the cocoon of the bourgeois modesty. The splendid, caddish David Tyler appears to offer one. Maud's seduction creates a chemistry of longing, sensuality, and betrayal - with a surprising climax.