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Vintage
03 October 2011
A brilliant, moving, poignant collection of stories, from the author of Cross Channel and The Lemon Table

The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents- of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. A divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress; a widower relives a favourite holiday; two writers rehearse familiar arguments; a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches. And at a series of evenings at 'Phil & Joanna's', the topics of conversation range from the environment to the Britishness of marmalade, from toilet graffiti to smoking, as we witness the guests' lives in flux.

Ranging from the domestic to the extraordinary, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in winter, the stories in Pulse resonate and spark.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   170g
ISBN:   9780099552475
ISBN 10:   0099552477
Pages:   240
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Julian Barnes is the author of ten novels, including Metroland, Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 10 Chapters and Arthur & George; two books of short stories, Cross Channel and The Lemon Table; and also three collections of journalism, Letters from London, Something to Declare, and The Pedant in the Kitchen. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Medicis (for Flaubert's Parrot) and the Prix Femina (for Talking it Over). In 2004 he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He lives in London.

Reviews for Pulse

Pulse is Barnes's 17th book and is a masterclass in the shorter form. -- Elizabeth Day Observer Julian Barnes writes so exquisitely that every page of this collection contains literary pearls Mail on Sunday 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 Barnes' stylish prose, eye for emotional detail and sense of absurdity never let him down... He suits the short story very well Literary Review


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