Nothing to be Frightened of - Hardcover
I don't believe in God, but I miss Him.' Julian Barnes' book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher brother, a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. Though he warns us that 'this is not my autobiography', the result is a tour of the mind of one of our most brilliant writers. "Both fun and funny. It is sharp too, in the sense of painful as well as witty...Barnes dissects with tremendous verve and insight the awesome inevitability of death and its impact on the human psyche. He also tears at your heart." (New Statesman). (Large Print Edition)
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'...witty, poignant and allusive, deals with the problems of memory and bristles with asides on poetry, penguins and religion...' -- Scotland on Saturday
'A book length essay which Barnes fans will adore' -- The Sunday Herald
'It is entertaining, intriguing, absorbing ... elegance that makes a sombre subject irresistible reading.' -- The Financial Times
`It is not, Barnes tells us, an autobiography. It is rather an essay in the best sense: speculative and precise, intimate and metaphysical, capacious and democratic in the variety of voices, alive and dead, that are invited to counsel the author as he edges his way towards the void' -- Times Literary Supplement
`intensely serious book of striking elegance: a clever, complicated reverie on last things' -- Sunday Telegraph
`Barnes dissects with tremendous verve and insight this awesome inevitability of death and its impact on the human psyche.' -- New Statesman
`The best pages... are those in which he evokes his parents' -- Independent
`The grim reaper slinks through every page of Julian Barnes's compelling memoir-cum-meditation...he is consistently interesting and entertaining' -- Daily Mail
`an elegant, ludic meditation on death' -- Daily Telegraph
`intricate and elegantly structured beneath its anecdotal surface' -- The Times
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'A book length essay which Barnes fans will adore' -- The Sunday Herald
'It is entertaining, intriguing, absorbing ... elegance that makes a sombre subject irresistible reading.' -- The Financial Times
`It is not, Barnes tells us, an autobiography. It is rather an essay in the best sense: speculative and precise, intimate and metaphysical, capacious and democratic in the variety of voices, alive and dead, that are invited to counsel the author as he edges his way towards the void' -- Times Literary Supplement
`intensely serious book of striking elegance: a clever, complicated reverie on last things' -- Sunday Telegraph
`Barnes dissects with tremendous verve and insight this awesome inevitability of death and its impact on the human psyche.' -- New Statesman
`The best pages... are those in which he evokes his parents' -- Independent
`The grim reaper slinks through every page of Julian Barnes's compelling memoir-cum-meditation...he is consistently interesting and entertaining' -- Daily Mail
`an elegant, ludic meditation on death' -- Daily Telegraph
`intricate and elegantly structured beneath its anecdotal surface' -- The Times
A brilliant, discursive, very funny book about death and the fear of death, god, nature, nurture and the author's childhood. The closest thing to a memoir Barnes will ever write.
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- PublisherWindsor
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1471345610
- ISBN 13 9781471345616
- BindingHardcover
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