Staring at the Sun by Barnes, Julian

Staring at the Sun (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679748205)

Vendor: Julian Barnes
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$15.00
$15.00
$15.00
Subtotal: $15.00
Staring at the Sun by Barnes, Julian

Staring at the Sun

$15.00
Staring at the Sun by Barnes, Julian

Staring at the Sun

$15.00
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x
The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending traces the life of a seemingly ordinary woman with an extraordinary disdain for wisdom in this "marvelous literary epiphany" (The New York Times Book Review).

In this wonderfully provocative novel, Barnes follows Jean Serjeant from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, confronting readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalogue of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed).

Elegant, funny and intellectually subversive, Staring at the Sun is Julian Barnes at his most dazzlingly original.

Author: Julian Barnes
ISBN-10: 0679748202
ISBN-13: 9780679748205
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 09/28/1993
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.23w x 0.61d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/1994 pg. 116
Library Journal 02/01/1994
By Julian Barnes
By Julian Barnes
x
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.

Recently Viewed Products