| Edition |
First Vintage international edition. |
| Description |
xix, 243 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"Seventeen essays and a short story"--Cover. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
A life with books -- The deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald -- The 'unpoetical' Clough -- George Orwell and the fucking elephant -- Ford's 'The good soldier' -- Ford and Provence -- Ford's Anglican saint -- Kipling's France -- France's Kipling -- The wisdom of Chamfort -- The man who saved old France -- The profile of Félix Fénéon -- Michel Houellebecq and the sin of despair -- Translating 'Madame Bovary' -- Wharton's 'The reef' -- Homage to Hemingway ; a short story -- Lorrie Moore takes wing -- Remembering Updike, remembering Rabbit -- Regulating sorrow. |
| Summary |
In these seventeen essays (plus a short story and a special preface), Julian Barnes examines the British, French, and American writers who have shaped his own writing, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. |
| Subject |
Authorship -- Philosophy.
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Fiction -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
9780345805508: $15.95 |
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034580550X |
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