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STARING AT THE SUN.
by Barnes, Julian
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394558219
- ISBN 13
- 9780394558219
- Seller
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About This Item
NY: KNOPF. NY 1986. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394558219 . First American edition. REVIEW COPY. (Publisher's printed review slip, glossy photo of author & publicity placard laid-in. ) SIGNED by Julian Barnes on title page. Near fine in fine jacket. (Mild bump at bottom tip of one board Hint of faint foxing at top edge. ) .
Synopsis
Teasing fullness, wit, incisiveness, gentleness and generosity' Times Literary SupplementStaring 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 learn cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.
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- Bookseller
- Waverley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25394
- Title
- STARING AT THE SUN.
- Author
- Barnes, Julian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0394558219
- ISBN 13
- 9780394558219
- Publisher
- KNOPF. NY 1986
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- 0394558219, Modern Fiction/julian Barnes/review Copies/199
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