Staring at the Sun
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  • Published: 1 January 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099540090
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $28.00

Staring at the Sun

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'Teasing fullness, wit, incisiveness, gentleness and generosity' Times Literary Supplement

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011

Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning 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 probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.
  • Published: 1 January 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099540090
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $28.00
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Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and The Man in the Red Coat, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Duff Cooper Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.

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The Only Story
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Praise for Staring at the Sun

None of Mr Barnes's previous work... has quite prepared us for the bewildering maturity of Staring at the Sun...it dazzles in depth

Harpers & Queen

Brilliant... Mr Barnes's work is at the forefront of a new internationalization of British fiction

New York Times

A remarkable and risk-taking book, breezily philosophical and light-fingered, funny and also genuinely affecting in that it touches both the heart and the head

Glasgow Herald