Julian Barnes
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Julian Barnes
Searching for clues, no one would ever guess that the lives of Arthur and George might intersect. Growing up in shabby-genteel nineteenth-century Edinburgh, Arthur is saddled with a dad who is a disgrace and a mum he wishes to protect, and is propelled into a life of action. To his astonishment, his career as a self-made man of letters brings him riches and fame and, in the world at large, he becomes the perfect picture of the honourable English gentlemen.
George is irredeemably an outsider, and has no hope of becoming such a picture. Though he’s dogged and…
Julian Barnes
Picture an England where all the pubs are quaint, the Royals behave themselves (more or less), and the cliffs of Dover actually are white. Now imagine that the principal national treasures—from Stonehenge to Buckingham Palace—are grouped together on the Isle of Wight.
This is precisely the vision that Sir Jack Pitman seeks to realize: a “destination” where tourists can find replicas of Big Ben, Wembley Stadium, the National Gallery, Princess Di’s grave, and even Harrods (conveniently located inside the Tower of London), and visit them all in the course of a…
Julian Barnes
A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar’s search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert’s characters.
