Staring at the sun / Julian Barnes
1987, 1st Paperback Edition. London: Picador, published by Pan Books in association with Jonathan Cape Ltd. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #337766
ISBN: 0330299301
Physical description: 195 pages; 20 cm. Notes: Originally published: Great Britain: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1986. Summary: A fighter pilot, high above the English Channel in 1941, watches the sun rise; he descends 10,000 feet and then, to his amazement, finds the sun beginning to rise again. With this haunting image Julian Barnes' novel begins. It charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginnings as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her questioning of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China; we learn the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides. Subjects: Women England; Fiction. 20th century fiction. War, fiction. Romance; fiction.
Price: €12.95