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An NPR Best Book of the Year
In this elegant triptych of history, fiction, and memoir, Julian Barnes has written about ballooning and photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and tearing them apart; and enduring after the incomprehensible loss of a loved one. Powerfully rendered, exquisitely crafted in Barnes’s erudite style, this searing work confirms the author as an unparalleled magus of the heart.
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Manufacturer: Vintage
Release date: 1 July 2014
ISBN-10 : 0345806581 | ISBN-13: 9780345806581
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Release date: 1 July 2014
ISBN-10 : 0345806581 | ISBN-13: 9780345806581
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