- Published: 3 October 2011
- ISBN: 9780099552475
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $29.99
Pulse
- Published: 3 October 2011
- ISBN: 9780099552475
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $29.99
Pulse is Barnes’s 17th book and is a masterclass in the shorter form.
Elizabeth Day, Observer
Barnes' stylish prose, eye for emotional detail and sense of absurdity never let him down... He suits the short story very well
Literary Review
The prose is crisp and elegant, light on its feet but resonant with pathos, and flecked with acute observations that never fail to strike a vivid chord with the reader.... It all makes for a diverse, entertaining collection, alternating between plangency and playfulness
Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler
All the stories in Pulse have the absolute completeness and density of the very best short fiction
New Statesman
Masterclasses in the form, full of the sidelong wit and intelligence that make the writer one of our most consistently deft short-form stylists
Daily Telegraph
Julian Barnes writes so exquisitely that every page of this collection contains literary pearls
Mail on Sunday