A Closed Eye - Vintage Contemporaries Author:Anita Brookner 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 com... more »es her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives.« less