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Levels of Life
Julian Barnes
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Description for Levels of Life
Paperback. Gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; gives us Colonel Fred Burnaby, reluctant adorer of the extravagant Sarah Bernhardt; then, finally, it gives us the story of author's own grief, unflinchingly observed. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 8. Weight in Grams: 112.
You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed…
In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; he gives us Colonel Fred Burnaby, reluctant adorer of the extravagant Sarah Bernhardt; then, finally, he gives us the story of his own grief, unflinchingly observed.
This is a book of intense honesty and insight; it is at once a celebration of love and a profound examination of sorrow.
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
111g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099584537
SKU
V9780099584537
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-98
About Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man 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 three books of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing To Be Frightened Of, which won the 2021 Yasnaya Polyana Prize in Russia. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.
Reviews for Levels of Life
It is extraordinary... [It] would seem to pull off the impossible: to recreate, on the page, what it is like to be alive in the world.
Emma Brockes
Guardian
This is a book of rare intimacy and honesty about love and grief. To read it is a privilege. To have written it is astonishing.
Ruth Scurr
The Times
It’s an unrestrained, affecting piece of writing, raw and honest and more truthful for its dignity and artistry... Anyone who has loved and suffered loss, or just suffered, should read this book, and re-read it, and re-read it.
Martin Fletcher
Independent
Levels of Life is both a supremely crafted artefact and a desolating guidebook to the land of loss.
John Carey
Sunday Times
While one might expect a Barnes book to impress, delight, move, disconcert or amuse, the last thing for which his work prepares us is the blast of paralysingly direct emotion that concludes Levels of Life.
Tim Martin
Daily Telegraph
Levels of Life is, deep-down, a heartfelt attempt to chronicle the strange journey that follows the death of a loved one.
Craig Brown
Mail on Sunday
A Taj Mahal made of paper not white marble.
Peter Conrad
Observer
A magnificent blast of unflinching prose.
Daily Telegraph
Powerful and well-articulated.
Roger Lewis
Daily Mail
It is true that the private language of love doesn’t generally translate; yet how vividly Barnes invokes the power and delicacy of what is lost to him.
Jane Shilling
Sunday Telegraph
Emma Brockes
Guardian
This is a book of rare intimacy and honesty about love and grief. To read it is a privilege. To have written it is astonishing.
Ruth Scurr
The Times
It’s an unrestrained, affecting piece of writing, raw and honest and more truthful for its dignity and artistry... Anyone who has loved and suffered loss, or just suffered, should read this book, and re-read it, and re-read it.
Martin Fletcher
Independent
Levels of Life is both a supremely crafted artefact and a desolating guidebook to the land of loss.
John Carey
Sunday Times
While one might expect a Barnes book to impress, delight, move, disconcert or amuse, the last thing for which his work prepares us is the blast of paralysingly direct emotion that concludes Levels of Life.
Tim Martin
Daily Telegraph
Levels of Life is, deep-down, a heartfelt attempt to chronicle the strange journey that follows the death of a loved one.
Craig Brown
Mail on Sunday
A Taj Mahal made of paper not white marble.
Peter Conrad
Observer
A magnificent blast of unflinching prose.
Daily Telegraph
Powerful and well-articulated.
Roger Lewis
Daily Mail
It is true that the private language of love doesn’t generally translate; yet how vividly Barnes invokes the power and delicacy of what is lost to him.
Jane Shilling
Sunday Telegraph