A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Barnes, Julian

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679731375)

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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Barnes, Julian

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

$18.00
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Barnes, Julian

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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A "playful, witty, and entertaining" book (The New York Times Book Review) that offers an exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven--from the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending.

It's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories of a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists and of woodworms tried for blasphemy in sixteenth-century France. It explores the relationship of fact to fabulation and the antagonism between history and love. In short, A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters is a grandly ambitious and inventive work of fiction, in the traditions of Joyce and Calvino, from the author of the widely acclaimed Flaubert's Parrot.



Author: Julian Barnes
ISBN-10: 0679731377
ISBN-13: 9780679731375
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 11/27/1990
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.14w x 0.74d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/26/1990
By Julian Barnes
By Julian Barnes
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Born in Leicester in 1946, Julian Barnes is the author of nine novels, a book of stories, and a collection of essays. He has won both the Prix M馘icis and the Prix F駑ina, and in 1988 was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London.

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