The Lemon Table: Barnes Julian - Brossura

Barnes, Julian

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099554992 ISBN 13: 9780099554998

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2011

Riassunto

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011

From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts; from the woman who reads elaborate recipes to her sick husband as a substitute for sex, to the woman 'incarcerated' in an old people's home beginning a correspondence with an author that enriches both their lives - all Barnes' characters, in their different ways, square up to death and rage against the dying light.

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Recensione:

"All [the stories] are a joy to read as Barnes glides between forms...Each story is distinct and indelible, a tribute to the form. Above all they make you think about growing old and what, if anything, can be done about it." (Glasgow Herald)

"All have a photographic clarity, a psychological realism that embraces extremes of feeling...with a deliciously wry streak" (Observer)

"Barnes's steely wit finds best expression when inhabiting the anguished and angry... Their brilliance rather plays upon our petty furies and failures, embellishing them with self-deprecatory wryness...entrancing and curiously cheering" (New Statesman)

"Masterly...his best stories have a strong air of Maupassant about them...extraordinarily effective...a compelling series of vignettes of old age, executed with great skill" (Daily Telegraph)

"Splendid, beautiful...reads like Turgenev" (Spectator)

Descrizione del libro:

'A moving portrayal of characters facing the end of their lives and looking back with regret, resignation or defiance' Independent

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0099554992
• ISBN 13: 9780099554998
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224