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A collection of tales featuring aging characters facing the ends of their lives includes "The Silence," in which a famous composer longs for companionship and resists drinking; "Knowing French," in which an octogenarian begins corresponding with an author; and "Appetite," in which a woman reads elaborate recipes to a sick husband. 15,000 first printing.
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"All [the stories] are a joy to read as Barnes glides between forms...Each story is distinct and indelible, a tribute to the form. Above all they make you think about growing old and what, if anything, can be done about it." (Glasgow Herald)
"All have a photographic clarity, a psychological realism that embraces extremes of feeling...with a deliciously wry streak" (Observer)
"Barnes's steely wit finds best expression when inhabiting the anguished and angry... Their brilliance rather plays upon our petty furies and failures, embellishing them with self-deprecatory wryness...entrancing and curiously cheering" (New Statesman)
"Masterly...his best stories have a strong air of Maupassant about them...extraordinarily effective...a compelling series of vignettes of old age, executed with great skill" (Daily Telegraph)
"Splendid, beautiful...reads like Turgenev" (Spectator)
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"All have a photographic clarity, a psychological realism that embraces extremes of feeling...with a deliciously wry streak" (Observer)
"Barnes's steely wit finds best expression when inhabiting the anguished and angry... Their brilliance rather plays upon our petty furies and failures, embellishing them with self-deprecatory wryness...entrancing and curiously cheering" (New Statesman)
"Masterly...his best stories have a strong air of Maupassant about them...extraordinarily effective...a compelling series of vignettes of old age, executed with great skill" (Daily Telegraph)
"Splendid, beautiful...reads like Turgenev" (Spectator)
A new collection of stories by one of the masters of the form.
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1400042143
- ISBN 13 9781400042142
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages241
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