The Lemon Table

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'Pure Barnes. combining delicacy of touch with depth of intuition, shunning sentimentaiity and wresting humour from the grip of sadness' Financial Times The characters in Julián Barnes' new collection of stories are growing old - somé with bittér regret, somé with resignation and others still with raging defiance. The settings rangé from nineteenth-century Sweden and Russia to a suburban 'Barnet shop', where the narrator measures out his life in haircuts. Barnes has created characters whose passions and longings are made all the stronger by the knowledge that, for them, time is almost at an end. 'Barnes is a top-flight precisionist, [with] the steady, pleasing wit of English comic realism, in which sheer intelligence and acute observation carry the whole production, line after iine, page after page . . . The Lemon Table, in ways both modest and grand, helps sustain a reader's faith in literature as the truest form of assisted living' New York Times Book Review 'Julián Barnes has... Tovább

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'Pure Barnes. combining delicacy of touch with depth of intuition, shunning sentimentaiity and wresting humour from the grip of sadness' Financial Times The characters in Julián Barnes' new collection of stories are growing old - somé with bittér regret, somé with resignation and others still with raging defiance. The settings rangé from nineteenth-century Sweden and Russia to a suburban 'Barnet shop', where the narrator measures out his life in haircuts. Barnes has created characters whose passions and longings are made all the stronger by the knowledge that, for them, time is almost at an end. 'Barnes is a top-flight precisionist, [with] the steady, pleasing wit of English comic realism, in which sheer intelligence and acute observation carry the whole production, line after iine, page after page . . . The Lemon Table, in ways both modest and grand, helps sustain a reader's faith in literature as the truest form of assisted living' New York Times Book Review 'Julián Barnes has many interests and a variety of talents that enable him to manage them all . . . The Lemon Table leaves one in no doubt as to Barnes's virtuosity' Guardian 'Beautifully wrought elegies for lost youth, iost promise and íost loves [that] attest to Mr Barnes's growing depth as a writer' New York Times 'Barnes's noveis smudge the boundaries between fiction, dramatic monologue, epistle, criticism and essay and this collection does the same in miniatűré, All have a photographic clarity, a psychological realism that embraces extremes of feeiing ... His writing only grows stronger and wiser by experience' Observer Vissza