Metroland

by Julian Barnes

Overview

From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of A Sense of an Ending comes a comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s that is “wonderfully fresh, crackling with nostalgic irreverence” (Vogue).

Only the author of Flaubert's Parrot could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of us call "growing up" and others "selling out.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307797773
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/15/2011
Series:	Vintage International
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Julian Barnes is the author of more than 20 books, including Keeping an The Sense of an Ending, The Noise of Time, and Eye Open: Essays on Art. He has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the David Cohen Prize for Literature, and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in France, the Prix Médicis and the Prix Femina; in Austria, the State Prize for European Literature. In 2004, he was named Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. He lives in London.

Hometown:

London, England

Date of Birth:

January 19, 1946

Place of Birth:

Leicester, England

Education:

Degree in modern languages from Magdalen College, Oxford, 1968

Editorial Reviews

"One would have to look hard to find a wryer, more lovingly detailed account of intellectual and sexual innocence abroad...Metroland portrays at once the disturbing aspects of adulthood and the consolations of maturity, a balance that makes one glad Jullian Barnes is still young and still writing." -- The New York Times

Jay Parini

"One would have to look hard to find a wryer, more lovingly detailed account of intellectual and secual innocence abroad.... Metroland portrays at once the disturbing aspects of adulthood and the consolations of maturity, a balance that makes one glad Julian Barnes is still young and still writing." —The New York Times

“Wonderfully fresh, crackling with nostalgic irreverence.” —Vogue

"Barnes's books ... celebrate the human imagination, the human heart, the boisterous diversity of our gene pool, our activities, our delusions.... They thrill the mind and the emotions; and he achieves, without tricks or puns, what Nabokov loved: esthetic bliss." —Chicago Sun-Times 

"If all works of fiction were as thoughtful, as subtle, as well constructed, and as funny as Metroland, there would be no more talk of the death of the novel." —New Statesman

"Julian Barnes is one of a handful of innovative English novelists who have succeeded in pulling the English novel out of the provincial rut in which it lay." —Newsday

"Flighty, playful ... Barnes succeeds in vividly re-creating teenage precociousness, particularly what it feels like to be a young male encountering love and sex." —Los Angeles Times

"Barnes writes like a dream." —Village Voice Literary Supplement

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