Staring at the Sun - Hardcover
In the course of what is, superficially, an ordinary life, whose dates span the 1920s to the year 2021, Jean Serjeant, a woman of exceptional curiosity, muses on diverse questions, great and small
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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)
Ambitious and speculative, this is a novel on the theme of courage, from the public heroisms of wartime to the private ones of ordinary life. Comic, tender and beautifully written.
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- PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0394558219
- ISBN 13 9780394558219
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages197
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