Staring at the Sun
- Author Julian Barnes
- Narrator Alix Dunmore
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 6 hours and 25 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Second World War fiction, Technothriller.
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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 -
Brilliant… Mr Barnes’s work is at the forefront of a new internationalization of British fiction
New York Times -
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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