β Julian Barnes
π Fiction
π
2010;2011
π Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
π English
β 142 KB
β¦ LIBER β¦
Cross Channel
β Scribed by Julian Barnes
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Year
- 1995;2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 157 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780099540151
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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 the Paris-Rouen railway to a lonely woman mourning the death of her brother on the battlefields of the Somme.
Clever, wise, reflective and imaginative, these stories are permeated with understanding of what it has meant for generations from these islands to cross the Channel.
Review
Exquisite... Love and sex, food, past and present, art and literature are all among barnes' material in this sparkling collection (Sunday Times )
Fluently written, finely observed, dexterously assembled...the overall effect is like music (New York Times )
Julian Barnes, who has an exceptional following in France, seems to have done more for Anglo-French relations than anyone since Edward VII (Sunday Telegraph )
Wonderfully ironic, perceptive and at times tender... Barnes has created something unique in his work, a particular way of looking at life, at words, at relationships, which is the mark of every true stylist (Justin Cartwright Financial Times )
His writing demonstrates the billowing lightness of imagination... reading these stories, you perceive and love France afresh... Cross Channel is characterised by the intelligence, irony and wit you associate with his writing, but it is also suffused with feeling, deeply seasoned with affection (Michele Roberts Independent )
Book Description
'The book is a delight... Undoubtedly Barnes's best book since Flaubert's Parrot' Allan Massie, Scotsman
Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780679767558
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
β Barnes, Julian
π Fiction
π
1996;2011
π Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
π English
β 147 KB
π 1 views
A collection of ten short stories with a linking theme: the British in France through several centuries. It begins with a group of mercenaries raiding a Protestant village in southern France in the late 17th century, and closes with a journey on the antiquated Eurostar express in 2015.
βCROSS CHANNEL
β CROSS CHANNEL
π Fiction
π
2010
π Wenku8.Net
π zh-CN
β 56 KB
β Lynne Rae Perkins
π Fiction
π
2005;2014
π HarperCollins;Greenwillow Books
π en-US
β 901 KB
π 1 views
Debbie is wishing something would happen. Something good. To her. Soon. In the meantime, Debbie loses a necklace and finds a necklace (and boy does the necklace have a story to tell), she goes jeans shopping with her mother (an accomplishment in diplomacy), she learns to drive shift in a truck (ille
Criss Cross
β James Patterson
π Fiction
π
2019
π Little, Brown and Company
π English
β 196 KB
π 1 views
**A killer with all the skills of a master detective has made Alex Cross the subject of his deranged "investigation."** In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copyca
Criss Cross
β James Patterson
π Fiction
π
2019
π Little, Brown and Company
π English
β 196 KB
π 1 views
**A killer with all the skills of a master detective has made Alex Cross the subject of his deranged "investigation."** In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copyca