Download or read book Lewis Percy written by Anita Brookner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anita Brookner is justly famous for her elegant, almost Jamesian character studies of women poised on the threshold of life. But in Lewis Percy, she performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him.