Death
vintage minis
$18.43
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
28 May 2017
Summary
The Weirdness of the End: Musings on Mortality
Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between.
When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents. Barnes is …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784872601 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784872601 |
| Series: | Vintage Minis |
| Author: | Julian Barnes |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 74g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 110mm x 8mm |
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Critics Review
Both fun and funny. It is sharp too, in the sense of painful as well as witty… Barnes dissects with tremendous verve and insight this awesome inevitability of death and its impact on the human psyche. He also tears at your heart * New Statesman *Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world’s most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human… They look good and read well. That’s win/win in our book. * Stylist *
About The Author
Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Booker Prize for Fiction, 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 four works of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing to Be Frightened Of. 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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