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A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction
Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they are re ...Show more
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction
This title is winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, "A History of the World in 10 Chapters" presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks fr ...Show more
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Vintage Past) by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10 Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but ...Show more
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction
Offers an unofficial account of Noah's Ark and his Voyage, which explains about how the human race has subsequently developed.
A Life With Books by Julian Barnes
Category: Languages and Reference
Julian Barnes writes about his early awareness of books and about his obsessive book-collecting and time spent in second-hand bookshops around the country. He ends by praising the physical book and expressing the confident hope ...Show more
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction
Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain. 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 that made sensational headlines at the ti ...Show more
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction
Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men o ...Show more
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Category: Classic Fiction
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize . Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working o ...Show more
Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction
Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Until, that is, the day he discovers Ann's celluloid past as a mediocre film actress. Soon Graham is pouncing on old clues, examining her books for inscriptions from past lovers, f ...Show more
Cross Channel by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction
No one has a better perspective on life on both sides of the channel than Julian Barnes. In these exquisitely crafted stories spanning several centuries, he takes as his universal theme the British in France; from the last days of a reclusive English composer, the beef consuming 'navvies' labouring on t ...Show more