Staring At The Sun

Julian Barnes

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Published by Vintage Digital, part of Vintage Publishing

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Format: ebook

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EAN: 9781409088981
Published: 5 Nov 2011

About the book

Synopsis

From the Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011

Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.

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What the critics say

None of Mr Barnes's previous work...has quite prepared us for the bewildering maturity of Staring at the Sun...it dazzles in depth
- Harpers & Queen

Brilliant... Mr Barnes's work is at the forefront of a new internationalization of British fiction
- New York Times

A remarkable and risk-taking book, breezily philosophical and light-fingered, funny and also genuinely affecting in that it touches both the heart and the head
- Glasgow Herald

Barnes seems equipped to write with humour and elegance about anything he turns his attention to
- Financial Times

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