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Jan 1, 1995 · January 16, 2016. A Private View is about George Bland, just retired from professional life and haunted by the sudden death of a friend and colleague. In this vulnerable state, Bland meets a young, attractive but predatory woman who moves into his apartment building under mysterious circumstances.
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May 12, 1983 · A Private View. Hardcover – May 12, 1983. The daughter of Louis B. Mayer and wife of David O. Selznick recounts her untypical Hollywood childhood, her marriage to Selznick, and her own career as a Broadway producer, profiling--along the way--her famous friends and colleagues.
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Dec 14, 2020 · A private view. by. Selznick, Irene Mayer, 1907-. Publication date. 1983. Topics. Selznick, Irene Mayer, 1907-, Mayer, Louis B. (Louis Burt), 1885-1957, Selznick, David O., 1902-1965, Theatrical producers and directors -- United States -- Biography, Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography. Publisher.
About A Private View. Brookner explores the complications that arise when one solitary man comes up against a woman who seems determined to invade his solitude. George Bland is an aging bachelor whose existence has been virtually a mirror image of his name–up until now.
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Jan 9, 1995 · The central story unfurls over a single event-choked year, begun by Wendy, who unlatches a closed adoption and springs on her family the boy her stuffy married sister, Violet, gave away 15 years earlier. (The sisters improbably kept David and Marilyn clueless with a phony study-abroad scheme.)
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Jan 6, 2019 · A private view : Brookner, Anita : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Brookner, Anita. Publication date. 1994. Topics. Middle-aged men, Psychological fiction. Publisher. New York : Random House. Collection. printdisabled; internetarchivebooks. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English.
Summary. 'Seated at a café table, in the syrupy warmth of out-of-season Nice, he reviewed his life and found it to be alarmingly empty.'. George Bland had planned to spend his retirement in leisurely travel and modest entertainment with his friend Putnam.
