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Pulse: Stories

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Pulse: Stories

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 Garibaldiâ€™s adventures in the nineteenth, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in our time, he finds the â€œstages, transitions, argumentsâ€ that define us. A newly divorced real estate agent canâ€™t resist invading his reticent girlfriendâ€™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 heâ€™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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2011-05-03
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307595263

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