The Porcupine
Julian Barnes. Vintage Books USA, $11 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-679-74482-5
Interesting but finally bloodless, this novel finds the deposed Communist president of an Eastern European country put on trial for the crimes he committed during his 33-year iron rule. (Oct.) Also in October, Vintage International will reissue Barnes's Staring at the Sun . ($10 *-74820-2 ), which tracks the relentlessly curious Jean Serjeant from her childhood in 1920s England to her flight into the sun in the year 2021. (Oct.)
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Reviewed on: 09/27/1993
Genre: Fiction
Hardcover - 138 pages - 978-0-679-41917-4
MP3 CD - 979-8-212-15524-3
Open Ebook - 83 pages - 978-0-307-79789-6
Open Ebook - 144 pages - 978-1-4090-8901-8
Paperback - 978-0-679-74863-2
Paperback - 144 pages - 978-0-330-32828-9
Paperback - 138 pages - 978-0-09-954014-4
