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In his first book of stories, Julian Barnes explores a striking and unusual theme - the British experience of France over three hundred years - with the abundance of sophistication and wit that has established him as one of the most daring and prodigiously gifted novelists at work in our language today.
These ten stories, singly and as a whole, examine the strange and persistent attraction between these two countries, as well as the often ambiguous results. The collection spans the Channel from the late seventeenth century, when mercenary soldiers attempt to "convert" a Protestant village in southern France, to the year 2015, when an aging Londoner travels yet again to Paris, carrying a lifetime of memories with him on the now antiquated Eurostar train. In between, the British appear in various guises: as railway builders in the 1840s, vineyard owners at the turn of the century, artistic exiles in the 1920s; a cricket team departs to play the Gentlemen of France in 1789, a dying composer prepares for the cross-Channel broadcast of his final work, a cyclist competes in the Tour de France, and a woman mourns her long-dead brother in the killing fields of the Great War.
About the Author: Julian Barnes was born in Leicester in 1946 and educated in London and Oxford. He worked as a lexicographer on the Oxford English Dictionary, then as a journalist for the <i>New Statesman,</i> the <i>Sunday Times</i> and the <i>Observer.</i> He is the author of eight novels, a collection of essays, a book of short stories, and is the first Englishman to have won both the Prix Medicis and the Prix Femina. In 1988 he was made a Chevalier and in 1995 he became an Officier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>
Title: Cross Channel: Stories
Publisher: Knopf (edition First Edition)
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First U.S. edition. Julian Barnes, with both his parents being French teachers, is a confirmed Francophile so it is not altogether surprising that for his first collection of short fiction he chose to write stories about the English and their relationship with the French. There are ten stories here, five of which were first published in The New Yorker or Granta. The book was first published, same year, in the UK by Cape. This is a fine copy in near fine, slightly rubbed dust jacket with a soft crease down front flap. MC. Seller Inventory # 002077
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