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Staring at the Sun

Staring at the Sun

Julian Barnes

Ambitious and speculative, this is a novel on the theme of courage, from the public heroisms of wartime to the private ones of ordinary life. Comic, tender and beautifully written.
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Summary

A fighter pilot, high above the English Channel in 1941, watches the sun rise; he descends 10,000 feet and then, to his amazement, finds the sun beginning to rise again. With this haunting image Julian Barnes’ novel begins. It charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginnings as a naïve, 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 questioning of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China; we learnt the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides

Product Description

Title - Staring at the Sun

Edition -

Author - Julian Barnes

ISBN 13 - 9780330299305

Imprint - Picador

Publisher - Pan Macmillan

Date Published - 18/03/2005

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No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 130 x 197 x 13mm

Weight - 142 g

Languages - English