Barnes, Julian Staring at the Sun ISBN 13: 9780394558219

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9780394558219: Staring at the Sun

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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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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
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages197

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes's wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary, but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom. And as Barnes--author of The Porcupine and Talking It Over--follows her from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, he confronts readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalog of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed). Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book. Seller Inventory # 123638169

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