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Staring at the Sun
Julian Barnes
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Description for Staring at the Sun
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 176.
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 moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099540090
SKU
V9780099540090
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-46
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Staring at the Sun
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more