Staring at the Sun

Informationen zum Autor Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending , which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story . He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing To Be Frightened Of, which won the 2021 Yasnaya Polyana Prize in Russia. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur. Klappentext Charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from naive, carefree country girl before the war to old age in 2020, following her experiences of marriage, motherhood and life. Zusammenfassung Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020.

About the author

Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and four works of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing to Be Frightened Of. He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime contribution to literature in 2011, and the Légion d'Honneur in 2017.

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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

Product details

• Authors: Julian Barnes
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.11.2009
• EAN: 9780099540090
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954009-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); China, England, FICTION / Women, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Historical / World War II, Technothriller, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century, sun; the sense of an ending; booker prize; literary fiction