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作者:Julian Barnes 著出版社:Random House US出版时间:2011年12月
- 版 次:1
- 页 数:227
- 字 数:
- 印刷时间:2011年12月01日
- 开 本:16开
- 纸 张:胶版纸
- 包 装:精装
- 是否套装:否
- 国际标准书号ISBN:9780307595263
After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be
Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen stories about
longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he
examines with his trademark wit and observant eye.
From an imperial capital in the eighteenth century to Garibaldi’s
adventures in the nineteenth, from the vineyards of Italy to the
English seaside in our time, he finds the “stages, transitions,
arguments” that define us. A newly divorced real estate agent can’t
resist invading his reticent girlfriend’s privacy, but the
information he finds reveals only his callously shallow curiosity.
A couple come together through an illicit cigarette and a song
shared over the din of a Chinese restaurant. A widower revisiting
the Scottish island he’d treasured with his wife learns how
difficult it is to purge oneself of grief. And throughout, friends
gather regularly at dinner parties and perfect the art of cerebral,
sometimes bawdy banter about the world passing before them.
Whether domestic or extraordinary, each story pulses with the
resonance, spark, and poignant humor for which Barnes is justly
heralded.