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Ranging from the domestic to the extraordinary, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in winter, the stories in Julian Barnes??long-awaited third collection resonate and spark. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on new beginnings and endings. A divorc falls in love with a mysterious European waitress, but cannot resist the chance to delve into her past; a widower visits a remote Scottish island to relive a favourite holiday; two writers return from an event rehearsing familiar arguments; a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches. Positioned in between are a series of evenings at ??hil & Joanna???? where among the topics of conversation ??the environment, politics, the Britishness of marmalade, toilet graffiti, smoking ??we witness the guests??lives shift in sections over the course of a year. ??ulian Barnes writes so exquisitely that every page of this collection contains literary pearls??Mail on Sunday ??ll the stories have the absolute completeness and density of the very best short fiction??New Statesman ??arnes??stylish prose, eye for emotional detail and sense of absurdity never let him down??Literary Review ??aster classes in the form, full of the sidelong wit and intelligence that make the writer one of our most consistently deft short-form stylists??Daily Telegraph
The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on by success and loss, by new beginnings and endings.
Julian Barnes is the author of ten novels, including Metroland, Flaubert? Parrot, A History of the World in 10?Chapters and Arthur & George; two books of short stories, Cross Channel and The Lemon Table; and also three collections of journalism, Letters from London, Something to Declare, and The Pedant in the Kitchen. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix M?icis (for Flaubert? Parrot) and the Prix Femina (for Talking it Over). In 2004 he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He lives in London.
Ranging from the domestic to the extraordinary, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in winter, the stories in Julian Barnes??long-awaited third collection resonate and spark. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on new beginnings and endings. A divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress, but cannot resist the chance to delve into her past; a widower visits a remote Scottish island to relive a favourite holiday; two writers return from an event rehearsing familiar arguments; a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches. Positioned in between are a series of evenings at ??hil & Joanna???? where among the topics of conversation ??the environment, politics, the Britishness of marmalade, toilet graffiti, smoking ??we witness the guests??lives shift in sections over the course of a year.
The stories in Julian Barnes??long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. A divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress; a widower relives a favourite holiday; two writers rehearse familiar arguments; a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches. And at a series of evenings at ??hil & Joanna???? the topics of conversation range from the environment to the Britishness of marmalade, from toilet graffiti to smoking, as we witness the guests??lives in flux. Ranging from the domestic to the extraordinary, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in winter, the stories in Pulseresonate and spark.
The stories in Julian Barnes??long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. A divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress; a widower relives a favourite holiday; two writers rehearse familiar arguments; a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches. And at a series of evenings at ??hil & Joanna???? the topics of conversation range from the environment to the Britishness of marmalade, from toilet graffiti to smoking, as we witness the guests??lives in flux.Ranging from the domestic to the extraordinary, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in winter, the stories in Pulse resonate and spark.
The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on by success and loss, by new beginnings and endings. In 'East Wind' a divorced estate agent falls in love with a European waitress, but is tempted, despite his happiness, to investigate her past; in 'The Limner' a deaf painter discovers his patron's likeness after spending time among his staff. Anchored off the coast of Brazil, Garibaldi spies his future wife through a telescope, and in 'Marriage Lines', a widower returns to a remote Scottish Island to relive a favourite holiday. These are also lives in flux - in the 'stages, transitions, arguments; incompatibilities which grow' - as in the title story, where a man reflects on the break-up of his marriage, brought into new perspective by the actions of his parents; two writers, a 'good team', return from an event rehearsing familiar arguments; in 'Gardener's World', a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches. Positioned in between are a series of evenings at 'Phil andamp; Joanna's', where among the topics of conversation - the environment, politics, the Britishness of marmalade, toilet graffitiand the perils of smoking - we witness the guests' lives shift in sections over the course of a year. Ranging from the domestic to the extraordinary, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in winter, the stories in Pulse resonate and spark, each imbued with the humour, poignancy and perception that marks all Julian Barnes' work.This is an imaginative and expertly-constructed new collection from a master of the form.
A brilliant, moving, poignant collection of stories, from the author of Cross Channel and The Lemon Table
A brilliant, moving, poignant collection of stories, from the author of Cross Channeland The Lemon Table