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Format: Paperback
£8.99
Author:
Julian Barnes
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099540151
£8.99
Available to pre-order for 05 Dec 2013
EAN: 9780099540151
Published: 5 Dec 2013
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011
No one has a better perspective on life on both sides of the channel than Julian Barnes. In these exquisitely crafted stories spanning several centuries, he takes as his universal theme the British in France; from the last days of a reclusive English composer, the beef consuming 'navvies' labouring on the Paris-Rouen railway to a lonely woman mourning the death of her brother on the battlefields of the Somme.
Clever, wise, reflective and imaginative, these stories are permeated with understanding of what it has meant for generations from these islands to cross the Channel.
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Exquisite... Love and sex, food, past and present, art and literature are all among barnes' material in this sparkling collection
- Sunday Times
Fluently written, finely observed, dexterously assembled...the overall effect is like music
- New York Times
Julian Barnes, who has an exceptional following in France, seems to have done more for Anglo-French relations than anyone since Edward VII
- Sunday Telegraph
Wonderfully ironic, perceptive and at times tender... Barnes has created something unique in his work, a particular way of looking at life, at words, at relationships, which is the mark of every true stylist
- Financial Times
His writing demonstrates the billowing lightness of imagination... reading these stories, you perceive and love France afresh... Cross Channel is characterised by the intelligence, irony and wit you associate with his writing, but it is also suffused with feeling, deeply seasoned with affection
- Independent
Julian Barnes is the author of eleven novels, including The Sense of an Ending, Metroland, Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters and Arthur & George; three books of short stories, Cross Channel, The Lemon Table and Pulse; and also three collections of journalism, Letters from London, Something to Declare, and The Pedant in the Kitchen.
His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Médicis (for Flaubert's Parrot) and the Prix Femina (for Talking it Over). He was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2004, the David Cohen Prize for Literature and the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. He lives in London.
