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Julian Barnes
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EAN: 9780099526544
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EAN: 9780099526544
Published: 1 Mar 2012
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction
As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Big Ben to Stonehenge, from Manchester United to the white cliffs of Dover. The project is monstrous, risky, and vastly successful. In fact, it gradually begins to rival 'Old' England and even threatens to supersede it...
One of Barnes's finest and funniest novels, England, England calls into question the idea of replicas, truth vs fiction, reality vs art, nationhood, myth-making, and self-exploration.
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A brilliant, Swiftian fantasy
- Economist
There is no more intelligent writer on the literary scene. In this novel, he is also moving. He has written nothing more poignant and enticing
- Sunday Times
Not only a very funny satire about England and the world... He has also skilfully dissected the discomforting ways in which we have all grown to accept, and even depend on, illusion
- Wall Street Journal
Runs at glorious full tilt...delightful stuff
- Independent
Few writers think and talk so beguiling
- Independent on Sunday
Julian Barnes is the author of eleven novels, including Metroland, Flaubert’s Parrot, Arthur & George and most recently The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He has also written three books of short stories, Cross Channel, The Lemon Table and Pulse; and 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 British writer to have won both the Prix Médicis (for Flaubert’s Parrot) and the Prix Fémina (for Talking it Over). In 2004 he received the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and in 2011 he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. He lives in London.
