Julian Barnes, Author . Knopf $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4214-2
Polished and classically structured, the 11 exquisite stories in this collection are as stylish as any of Barnes's creations, while also possessed of a pleasing heft. Told from a dazzling array of viewpoints, each is underpinned with a familiar...
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Julian Barnes. Knopf, $25.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-101-94724-1
Reviewed by Anthony Marra
Dmitry Shostakovich, the renowned Russian
composer and subject of Barnes’s magnificent
biographical novel, purportedly declared near the end of his life, “The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.” The Noise of Time,
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Julian Barnes. Knopf, $30 (288p) ISBN 978-1-101-87478-3
In these sharply observed essays, English novelist Barnes (Sense of an Ending), levels his fine critical eye at the visual arts, principally focusing on French painting and the transition from romanticism to modernism. The Booker Prize–winning...
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Julian Barnes. Knopf, $22.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-3853-5077-8
British novelist Barnes (The Sense of an Ending) offers a delicately oblique, emotionally tricky geography of grief, which he has constructed from his experience since the sudden death in 2008 of his beloved wife of 30 years, literary agent Pat...
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Julian Barnes. Vintage International, $15.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-345-80550-8
In this anthology, Man Booker Prize-winning British novelist Barnes (The Sense of an Ending) takes us through a life lived in literature. The 17 essays, previously published in newspapers and magazines, pay tribute to writers beloved of Barnes; the...
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Julian Barnes, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-375-41161-8
The ever-brilliant Barnes concocts a mordant sexual comedy for his latest novel, taking over the later lives of three characters he introduced in the earlier Talking It Over. Straight, rather stuffy organic-food kingpin Stuart; his former best...
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Julian Barnes, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (275p) ISBN 978-0-375-40582-2
The brilliantly playful author of Flaubert's Parrot and Cross Channel brings off a remarkable coup. He has imagined, with his customary wit, an England created especially for tourists, located on the Isle of Wight and equipped with all the essential
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Julian Barnes, Author Alfred A. Knopf $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44691-0
On the heels of Barnes's essay collection Letters from London, which included a searing account of Britain's xenophobic anxiety over 1994's ceremonial opening of the ""Chunnel,"" comes this wonderfully wry short-story collection (his first)...
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Julian Barnes, Author Knopf Publishing Group $17 (138p) ISBN 978-0-679-41917-4
Though Barnes generally excels at the novel of ideas ( Flaubert's Parrot ) and is a master at disclosing character through adroit dialogue ( Talking It Over) , his latest effort, an interesting thesis conveyed in verbal interchanges between two...
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Julian Barnes, Author Knopf Publishing Group $18.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-394-58061-6
Admirers of Julian Barnes ( Flaubert's Parrot ; Staring at the Sun ) are accustomed to thoroughly unorthodox approaches to the novel, and his latest, while brilliantly entertaining, certainly strains the limits of the genre. There are many...
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Julian Barnes, Author Alfred A. Knopf $15.95 (197p) ISBN 978-0-394-55821-9
From guileless child to implausibly innocent adolescent and young woman, Jean Serjeantthe central figure in this wonderfully imagined novel by the gifted author of Flaubert's Parrotunaccountably (and perhaps a mite too easily) becomes a mature woman
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Julian Barnes, Author Vintage Books USA $14.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-679-76161-7
The essays in this collection of the celebrated British author of Flaubert's Parrot were originally published in The New Yorker and span the four years of Barnes's tenure as that magazine's London correspondent. From the debacle of Lloyd's of London'
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Julian Barnes, Author Vintage Books USA $11 (160p) 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...
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Julian Barnes, Author Vintage Books USA $16 (288p) ISBN 978-0-679-73687-5
The members of a love triangle take turns narrating this ingenious novel from British author Barnes, whose earlier works Metroland and Before She Left Me will also be released in Vintage International editions this October. (Oct.)
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Julian Barnes, Author Vintage Books USA $15.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-73137-5
Noah's Ark, Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa and ``an offbeat vision of the Hereafter'' are some of the ingredients of this pyrotechnical work. ``Admirers of Barnes are accustomed to thoroughly unorthodox approaches to the novel, and his latest,...
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Julian Barnes, Author . Knopf $24 (243p) ISBN 978-0-307-26963-8
In this virtuosic memoir, Barnes (Arthur & George
) makes little mention of his personal or professional life, allowing his audience very limited ingress into his philosophical musings on mortality. But like Alice tumbling through the rabbit...
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Julian Barnes, Author . Knopf $24.95 (385p) ISBN 978-0-307-26310-0
Arthur is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, physician, sportsman, gentleman par excellence and the inventor of Sherlock Holmes; George is George Edalji, also a real, if less well-known person, whose path crossed not quite fatefully with the famous author's
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Julian Barnes, Author . Knopf $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-41513-5
Novelist Barnes's latest collection of haute musings on France and things French is rather like a ride in a creaky Citroën: at first, it kicks and gurgles in a scattered path, but once it gets started, it's a charming and nostalgic way...
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Julian Barnes, read by Richard Morant. AudioGO, unabridged, seven CDs, 7 hrs., $21.95 ISBN 978-1-60998-257-7
Barnes's contemporary classic follows loosely in the footsteps of acclaimed 19th-century French novelist Gustave Flaubert, serving as capsule biography, work of critical art, record of cross-generational authorial jealousy, and a portrait of...
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Julian Barnes, Author, Sonny Mehta, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40525-2
The author of Flaubert's Parrot once again devises smart and fabulous fun. On the surface Barnes's newest is a postmodern Jules et Jim , made up only of testimonies from its characters, principally, meat-and-potatoes Stuart; Stuart's new bride,...
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Julian Barnes. Knopf, $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-52121-1
Barnes’s deeply touching novel is a study of heartbreak; like his Man Booker Prize–winning The Sense of an Ending, it includes fading reminiscences, emotional complications, and moments of immeasurable sadness as an aging Englishman remembers his...
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Julian Barnes. Knopf, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-65877-1
Inspired by seeing John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Samuel Jean Pozzi at the National Gallery in London, Booker Prize–winner Barnes (The Only Story) investigates the life of the 19th-century French “society doctor” in this wry, essayistic, and art-f
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Julian Barnes. Knopf, $26 (192p) ISBN 978-0-593-53543-1
Booker Prize winner Barnes (The Sense of an Ending) delivers a tepid, talky meditation on the impact of a professor on a middle-aged man. Former actor Neil, wounded by the end of his marriage, signs up for an adult education course titled “Culture...
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