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Through the Window (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780345805508)
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xFrom the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending and one of Britain's greatest writers: a brilliant collection of essays on the books and authors that have meant the most to him throughout his illustrious career. - "[A] blissfully intelligent gathering of literary essays." --Financial Times
In these seventeen essays (plus a short story and a special preface, "A Life with Books"), Julian Barnes examines the British, French and American writers who have shaped his writing, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Hemingway, from Kipling's view of France to the French view of Kipling, from the many translations of Madame Bovary to the fabulations of Ford Madox Ford, from the National Treasure status of George Orwell to the despair of Michel Houellebecq, Julian Barnes considers what fiction is, and what it can do. As he writes, "Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it."
Author: Julian Barnes
ISBN-10: 034580550X
ISBN-13: 9780345805508
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 11/20/2012
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.29w x 0.79d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2012
Publishers Weekly 10/08/2012
Library Journal 11/15/2012 pg. 80
Shelf Awareness 12/11/2012
In these seventeen essays (plus a short story and a special preface, "A Life with Books"), Julian Barnes examines the British, French and American writers who have shaped his writing, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Hemingway, from Kipling's view of France to the French view of Kipling, from the many translations of Madame Bovary to the fabulations of Ford Madox Ford, from the National Treasure status of George Orwell to the despair of Michel Houellebecq, Julian Barnes considers what fiction is, and what it can do. As he writes, "Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it."
Author: Julian Barnes
ISBN-10: 034580550X
ISBN-13: 9780345805508
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 11/20/2012
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.29w x 0.79d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2012
Publishers Weekly 10/08/2012
Library Journal 11/15/2012 pg. 80
Shelf Awareness 12/11/2012
By Julian Barnes
xJulian Barnes is the author of ten previous novels, three books of short stories, and three collections of journalism. In addition to the Booker Prize, his other honors include the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in London.
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