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Staring at the Sun
- Author
- Julian Barnes
- Narrator
- Alix Dunmore
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 27 August 2020
- Run Time
- 6 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011
Staring 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. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.
© Julian Barnes 1986 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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None of Mr Barnes's previous work... has quite prepared us for the bewildering maturity of Staring at the Sun...it dazzles in depth
Harpers & Queen
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Brilliant... Mr Barnes's work is at the forefront of a new internationalization of British fiction
New York Times
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A remarkable and risk-taking book, breezily philosophical and light-fingered, funny and also genuinely affecting in that it touches both the heart and the head
Glasgow Herald
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Details
- Author
- Julian Barnes
- Narrator
- Alix Dunmore
- Duration
- 6 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 August 2020
- ISBN
- 9781473584310
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Second World War fiction, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Technothriller
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.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. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.© Julian Barnes 1986 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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