Staring at the Sun - Hardcover
Very Good, 1st Edition, Cape 1980. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind, original Jonathtan Cape review slip loosely inserted. Bound in bright gilt lettered black cloth, together with very good original unclipped (£9.95) Cathy Wood designed sunset over sea dustwrapper. Housed and protected in removable transparent wrapper.
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"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)
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"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)
'Teasing fullness, wit, incisiveness, gentleness and generosity' Times Literary Supplement
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0224024140
- ISBN 13 9780224024143
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages196
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