Staring at the Sun

Barnes, Julian

ISBN 10: 0394220056 / ISBN 13: 9780394220055

Published by Random House, Toronto, 1986

About this Item

A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Nf/vg. First Cdn edition. Signed by the author on title page. D/j has a chip missing on front upper outer corner minor wear on other corners. Couple of small tears on edges. Remainder mark on upper edge. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Staring at the Sun
• Publisher: Random House, Toronto
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394220056
• ISBN 13: 9780394220055
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Canadian Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• 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)