Download or read book A Closed Eye written by Anita Brookner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening. In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives.