Julian Barnes
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Tony Webster has always made the very reasonable assumption that he could trust his memories, but when he's forced to revisit his past, everything he believes about himself and his life is challenged. The fact is that Tony Webster, a middle-aged man, never gave much thought to his past at all until his closest childhood friends' return with a vengeance -- one of them from the grave and another maddeningly present. Tony thought he'd left all this uncertainly...
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Geoffrey Braithwaite, nursing an infatuation with the long-dead author Flaubert, becomes obsessed with learning which of two stuffed parrots--both exhibited in museums as having served as inspiration for Flaubert while he was writing his novel "Un coeur simple"--is the one that really sat on the author's desk.
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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An essay on grief and love for the author's late wife Pat, in which he discusses ballooning, photography, love, and bereavement; putting two things and two people together; and then tearing those things apart.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire. Years later--one struggling with his identity in a world hostile to his ancestry, the other creating the world's most famous detective while in love with a woman who is not his wife--their fates become inextricably connected. In Arthur & George, Julian Barnes explores the grand...
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