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Cross Channel
- Author
- Julian Barnes
- Narrator
- Polly Lee, Simon Vance
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 24 November 2020
- Run Time
- 6 hours 12 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
acuity, humor, and compassion. For whether Barnes’s English characters come to France as conquerors or hostages, laborers, athletes, or aesthetes, what they discover, alongside rich food and
barbarous sexual and religious practices, is their own ineradicable Englishness. The ten stories that make up Cross Channel introduce us to a plethora of intriguing, original, and sometimes ill-fated
characters. Elegantly conceived and seductively written, Cross Channel is further evidence of Barnes’s wizardry.
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Details
- Author
- Julian Barnes
- Narrator
- Polly Lee, Simon Vance
- Duration
- 6 hours 12 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 November 2020
- ISBN
- 9781980082866
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
In his first collection of short stories, Barnes explores the narrow body of water containing the vast sea of prejudice and misapprehension which lies between England and France withacuity, humor, and compassion. For whether Barnes’s English characters come to France as conquerors or hostages, laborers, athletes, or aesthetes, what they discover, alongside rich food andbarbarous sexual and religious practices, is their own ineradicable Englishness. The ten stories that make up Cross Channel introduce us to a plethora of intriguing, original, and sometimes ill-fated characters. Elegantly conceived and seductively written, Cross Channel is further evidence of Barnes’s wizardry.
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