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Julian Barnes

Nothing to Be Frightened of

Editura: Vintage International

Anul aparitiei: 2009

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Sense of an Ending, "an elegant memoir and meditation" ( The New York Times Book Review ) that grapples with the most natural thing in the world: the fear of death. A memoir on mortality as only Julian Barnes can write it, one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. If the fear of death is "the most rational thing in the world," how does one contend with it? An atheist at twenty and an agnostic at sixty, Barnes looks into the various arguments for, against, and with God, and at his own bloodline, which has become, following his parents' death, another realm of mystery. Deadly serious, masterfully playful, and surprisingly hilarious, Nothing to Be Frightened Of is a riveting display of how this supremely gifted writer goes about his business and a highly personal tour of the human condition and what might follow the final diagnosis.

Julian Barnes

Arthur & George

Editura: Vintage Books USA

Anul aparitiei: 2007

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - From the bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes an "extraordinary ... first rate" novel ( The New York Times Book Review ) that follows the lives of two very different British men and explores the grand tapestry of late-Victorian Britain. 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.

Julian Barnes

Pulse: Stories

Editura: Knopf Publishing Group

Anul aparitiei: 2011

After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examines with his trademark wit and observant eye. From an imperial capital in the eighteenth century to Garibaldi s adventures in the nineteenth, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in our time, he finds the stages, transitions, arguments that define us. A newly divorced real estate agent can t resist invading his reticent girlfriend s privacy, but the information he finds reveals only his callously shallow curiosity. A couple come together through an illicit cigarette and a song shared over the din of a Chinese restaurant. A widower revisiting the Scottish island he d treasured with his wife learns how difficult it is to purge oneself of grief. And throughout, friends gather regularly at dinner parties and perfect the art of cerebral, sometimes bawdy banter about the world passing before them. Whether domestic or extraordinary, each story pulses with the resonance, spark, and poignant humor for which Barnes is justly heralded."

Julian Barnes

England, England

Editura: Vintage Books USA

Anul aparitiei: 2000

BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - From the internationally acclaimed bestselling author The Sense of an Ending comes a "wickedly funny" novel ( The New York Times ) about an idyllic land of make-believe in England that gets horribly and hilariously out of hand. Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry. This is precisely what visionary tycoon, Sir Jack Pitman, seeks to accomplish on the Isle of Wight, a "destination" where tourists can find replicas of Big Ben (half size), Princess Di's grave, and even Harrod's (conveniently located inside the tower of London). Martha Cochrane, hired as one of Sir Jack's resident "no-people," ably assists him in realizing his dream. But when things go awry, Martha develops her own vision of the perfect England. Julian Barnes delights us with a novel that is at once a philosophical inquiry, a burst of mischief, and a moving elegy about authenticity and nationality.

Julian Barnes

Flaubert's Parrot

Editura: Vintage Books USA

Anul aparitiei: 1990

BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE - From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with the 19th century French author Flaubert--and with tracking down the stuffed parrot that once inspired him. - "A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio." -- The New York Times Book Review Julian Barnes playfully combines a detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius. A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality.

Julian Barnes

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

Editura: Vintage Books USA

Anul aparitiei: 1990

A "playful, witty, and entertaining" book ( The New York Times Book Review ) that offers an exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven--from the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending. It's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories of a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists and of woodworms tried for blasphemy in sixteenth-century France. It explores the relationship of fact to fabulation and the antagonism between history and love. In short, A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters is a grandly ambitious and inventive work of fiction, in the traditions of Joyce and Calvino, from the author of the widely acclaimed Flaubert's Parrot.

Julian Barnes (Author)

Arthur & George

Editura: VINTAGE

Anul aparitiei: 2006

Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events. Page dim. 199 x 128 x 32 Weight: 360 grams

Julian Barnes (Author)

Nothing to Be Frightened of

Editura: VINTAGE BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2009

'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher brother, a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. Page dim. 236 x 131 x 17 Weight: 192 grams

Julian Barnes (Author)

England, England

Editura: VINTAGE BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. Page dim. 197 x 130 x 11 Weight: 242 grams

Julian Barnes (Author)

Metroland

Editura: VINTAGE BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2009

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a magnificent portrait of youth and growing up. Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. Page dim. 197 x 130 x 12 Weight: 172 grams

Julian Barnes (Author)

Before She Met Me

Editura: VINTAGE BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Soon Graham is pouncing on old clues, examining her books for inscriptions from past lovers, frequenting cinemas and poring over the bad movies she appeared in. Page dim. 198 x 129 x 13 Weight: 184 grams

Julian Barnes (Author)

Staring at the Sun

Editura: VINTAGE BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2009

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. Page dim. 196 x 133 x 14 Weight: 172 grams

Julian Barnes (Author)

A History of the World in 10 1

Editura: VINTAGE BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Page dim. 196 x 129 x 25 Weight: 286 grams

Julian Barnes (Author)

Talking It Over

Editura: VINTAGE

Anul aparitiei: 2010

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a novel of profound insight and comic flare. Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; Page dim. 199 x 130 x 21 Weight: 252 grams

Julian Barnes (Author)

The Porcupine

Editura: VINTAGE BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversary, the prosecutor general, stands for the new government's ideals and liberal certainties, and is attempting to ensare Petkanov with the dictator's own totalitarian laws. Page dim. 198 x 131 x 10 Weight: 124 grams

Julian Barnes (Author)

Cross Channel

Editura: VINTAGE BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2009

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes an enthralling set of short stories. No one has a better perspective on life on both sides of the channel than Julian Barnes. Page dim. 197 x 130 x 15 Weight: 218 grams

Julian Barnes (Author)

Love, Etc.

Editura: VINTAGE BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2009

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes the highly entertaining sequel to Talking it Over. In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole Gillian away. Page dim. 198 x 129 x 17 Weight: 226 grams

Julian Barnes (Author)

Pulse

Editura: VINTAGE BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2011

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. Page dim. 197 x 137 x 16 Weight: 180 grams

Julian Barnes (Author)

Arthur & George

Editura: VINTAGE BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2011

Barnes Julian

The Only Story

Editura: W F Howes Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2018

Page dim. 144 x 170 x 28 Weight: 210 grams