Levels of Life
by:
Julian Barnes (author)
'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011...
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'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as 'an unparalleled magus of the heart'. This book confirms that opinion.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781448180844 (1448180848)
Publish date: April 4th 2013
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Biography Memoir
I notice strange continuities: I used to rub oil into her back because her skin dried easily; now I rub oil into the drying oak of her grave-marker.Με το τρίτο μέρος να είναι και το πιο δυνατό, συναισθηματικά και δομικά, η πρώτη επαφή με τη γραφή του Julian Barnes αποδεικνύεται να μην είναι κι η τελ...
Mr Barnes doesn't do it for me. Luckily for him, he is adored by everyone else.
Julian Barnes became a widower in 2008 when his wife died of a brain tumour at age 68 . Pat Kavanagh was a brilliant and well respected literary agent. They had been together, off and on but mostly on, for over 30 years. The first two sections of the book, on the early days of ballooning, are mild...