The Lemon Table: Stories - Couverture souple

Barnes, Julian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1400076501 ISBN 13 : 9781400076505

Editeur : Vintage, 2005

Synopsis

In this widely acclaimed collection of short stories, the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending addresses the most poignant aspect of the human condition: growing old.

"A master at work.... Sweet, sour, bitter, wistful, ruminative, comic, elegiac ... A joy to read." --San Francisco Chronicle

The characters in The Lemon Table are facing the ends of their lives--some with bitter regret, others with resignation, and others still with defiant rage. Their circumstances are just as varied as their responses. In 19th-century Sweden, three brief conversations provide the basis for a lifetime of longing. In today's England, a retired army major heads into the city for his regimental dinner--and his annual appointment with a professional lady named Babs. Somewhere nearby, a devoted wife calms (or perhaps torments) her ailing husband by reading him recipes.

In stories brimming with life and our desire to hang on to it one way or another, Barnes proves himself by turns wise, funny, clever, and profound--a writer of astonishing powers of empathy and invention.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in Leicester, England, in 1946, Julian Barnes is the author of a previous book of stories, Cross Channel, two collections of essays, a translation of Alphonse Daudet's In the Land of Pain, and nine novels. In France, he is the only writer to have won both the Prix M?dicis and the Prix F?mina, and in 2004 he became a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres; in England his honors include the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He has also received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He lives in London.
www.julianbarnes.com

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1400076501
• ISBN 13: 9781400076505
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible