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England, England
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Barnes's eighth novel is a futuristic dystopian fantasy in which a corrupt businessman seeks to recreate scenes from English history as a theme park on the Isle of Wight. Eventually, the recreations take the place of the real England.
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Nothing to Be Frightened of
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Two years after the bestselling "Arthur & George," Barnes presents an essay on mortality that touches on faith, science, and family, as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who have confronted the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction.
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Arthur & George
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Arthur and George grow up in different parts of Britain, and each follows a different path as he comes of age and grows into adulthood. But at a crucial point in their lives, the two meet--and, gradually, the reader discovers who these two really are. Julian Barnes's 10th novel is both a closely detailed study of character and an eye-opening sweep ...
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History of the World in 10-1/2 Chapters
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An unclassifiable, meditative novel that plays with history, beginning with the story of Noah and the ark as told by a stowaway woodworm, and ending with a dream of a very unsatisfying heaven: "...getting what you want all the time is very close to not getting what you want all the time."
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Flauberts Parrot
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Geoffrey Braithwaite is the learned and querulous narrator of this inquiry into the mysteries of Flaubert and his art, and into the facts of his own marriage to the adulteress he adored. He travels to France to find the stuffed parrot Flaubert kept on his desk for inspiration.
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Cross channel
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A sequence of ten short stories about the experience British subjects in France.
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Metroland
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Julian Barnes's first novel, published in 1980, is about a Francophile growing up in stifling English suburbia. He grows up to be a young man whose main ambition, to be outrageous, evolves into a competition with a friend, in which they bet money on who can be more shocking.
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Staring at the sun
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This novel about an ordinary woman, Jean Serjeant, who believes the world is anything but ordinary, chronicles her life from childhood to her late nineties.
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Porcupine
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Barnes's 1992 short novel is set in a fictional post-communist Eastern European country. Petkanov, the man who was the president under communism, is being tried by the new democratic government, and the prosecutor, Peter Solinsky, is swayed by Petkanov's passionate defense of the old system as a workable and humane system, and begins to question ...
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Something to Declare
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Julian Barnes, an unashamed fan of the French--their literature, language, food, and national character--writes about all that and more in these essays, which were originally published in the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books.
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Love, Etc
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Soon after their wedding, Gillian divorced Stuart and married Oliver. Ten years later, they are all in their 40s, and Stuart the businessman is a success and Oliver the writer a failure. Humiliatingly, Oliver and Gillian allow Stuart to support them, which only makes the relationships among the three more tortuous and complex. The events are seen, ...
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The Lemon Table
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In his widely acclaimed new collection of stories, Barnes addresses what is perhaps the most poignant aspect of the human condition: growing old. The characters are facing the ends of their lives--some with bitter regret, others with resignation, and others still with defiant rage.
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Before She Met Me
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At the start of this fiendishly comic and suspenseful novel, a mild-mannered English academic chuckles as he watches his wife commit adultery. The action takes place she met him. But lines between film and reality, past and present become terrifyingly blurred in this sad and funny tour de force from the author of Flaubert's Parrot.
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In the Land of Pain
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Alphonse Daudet, Julian Barnes (Translator)
Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) was a teenager when he contracted syphilis, and 25 years later he found himself victim of a highly painful spin-off from the original disease, known as tabes dorsalis. In his diaries, he recounted his suffering and his futile search for a cure during the 12 years it took him to die. Julian Barnes has translated and ...
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Talking It Over
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A triangular love relationship is described in turn by each of the three participants: Gillian, Stuart, and Oliver.
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The Pedant in the Kitchen
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Letters from London: 1990-1995
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Something to Declare: Essays on France and French Culture
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Julian Barnes, an unashamed fan of the French--their literature, language, food, and national character--writes about all that and more in these essays, which were originally published in the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books.
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Letters from London
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With his characteristic wit and idiosyncratic intelligence, Barnes takes on his hometown, London, in this collection of essays. Culled from the pages of the New Yorker, these pieces explore diverse subjects with humor including the royals, Lloyd's of London's demise, Thatcher, the House of Commons, and the fatwa on Salmon Rushdie.
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Cross Channel: Stories
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A sequence of ten short stories about the experience British subjects in France.
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The Lemon Table: Stories
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Master prose stylist Julian Barnes presents a collection of stories whose characters are growing old and facing the end of their lives--some with bitterness, some with resignation, and others with raging defiance.
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Something to Declare: Essays on France
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Julian Barnes, an unashamed fan of the French--their literature, language, food, and national character--writes about all that and more in these essays, which were originally published in the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books.
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Coffee with Aristotle
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Jonathan Barnes, Julian Barnes (Foreword by)
More than two millennia after his death, Aristotle's thought still influences modern society. Here, over coffee, he converses with refreshing and illuminating simplicity about everything from causation and deduction to the role of women and the wonders of the natural world.
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A Man in Full
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Inglaterra, Inglaterra
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