First American edition. SIGNED by Julian Barnes on title page. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (Hint of faint foxing at top edge. Mild discoloration at spine on jacket. ).

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Bibliographic Details

Title

STARING AT THE SUN.

Publisher

KNOPF., NY

Publication Date

1987

ISBN 10

0394220056

ISBN 13

9780394220055

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition; First Printing.

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Jean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes s wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary, but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom. And as Barnes winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending 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 catalogue of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed).
Elegant, funny and intellectually subversive, Staring at the Sun is Julian Barnes at his most dazzlingly original.
Brilliant . . . a marvelous literary epiphany. Carlos Fuentes, The New York Times Book Review
Barnes s literary energy and daring are nearly unparalleled. New Republic"

Review

"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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