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Barnes, Julian.

Book 2012

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.

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ISBN:

9780345805508
034580550X

Edition:

First Vintage international edition

Description:

xix, 243 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:

"Seventeen essays and a short story"--Cover
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

LCCN:

2012035278

Control Number:

927296

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