Staring at the Sun (Perennial Fiction Library) - Softcover

Staring at the Sun

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. First Perennial Fiction Library edition published 1988, 1st printing. 197pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Fine condition. "In his first book since the wonderful Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes examines the life of a very ordinary woman and finds in it a world of everyday miracles. From her girlhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, Jean Serjeant, Barne's heroine, confronts her century with an insatiable curiosity. For Jean, the truth handed her by her parents, uncle, husband, child, and a pilot named Prosser, who unwittingly lures her into staring at the sun, is a truth that must be challenged. Driven by questions both large and small, Jean begins her years of wandering, on pilgrimages that extend from the Far East to the Grand Canyon, ever enriched by the sense of wonder that life inspires. The result is a work whose wit and empathy distinguish Julian Barnes as one of the most original and entertaining novelists writing today." [publisher copy] "With this exceptional major novel--and there doesn't seem to be a better or more readable one from either side of the Atlantic this year--Julian Barnes establishes himself as a writer of the caliber of Mario Vargas Llosa, Salman Rushdie and Thomas Pynchon in the making of a new generation's late 20th-century fiction."--Robert Taylor, Boston Globe. "Brilliant . . . a marvelous literary epiphany."--Carlos Fuentes, New York Times Book Review. Pristine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Harper edition has blue-green cover w/illustration by Karen Katz. Quite presentable. Artikel-Nr. RUB2925

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