Staring at the Sun
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- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2010
Summary
‘Teasing fullness, wit, incisiveness, gentleness and generosity’ - Times Literary Supplement
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011
Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China, and we cannot fail to be…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099540090 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099540096 |
| Author: | Julian Barnes |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
None of Mr Barnes’s previous work… has quite prepared us for the bewildering maturity of Staring at the Sun …it dazzles in depth
None of Mr Barnes’s previous work… has quite prepared us for the bewildering maturity of Staring at the Sun…it dazzles in depth * Harpers & Queen *Brilliant… Mr Barnes’s work is at the forefront of a new internationalization of British fiction * New York Times *A remarkable and risk-taking book, breezily philosophical and light-fingered, funny and also genuinely affecting in that it touches both the heart and the head * Glasgow Herald *
About The Author
Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes is the author of fourteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Booker Prize, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and five works of non-fiction, including Nothing to Be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life. He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime contribution to literature in 2011, and the Legion d’honneur in 2017.
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