Books by Julian Barnes
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review 1: Tony Webster is in late middle age as he tells the story of his best childhood friends and his first real girlfriend and the tragic end that one of them met. Years later he is bequeathed the diary of his friend which makes him analyze the death, its causes, and his part in it. Th...
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review 1: There are moments in this book that are so great, if you like philosophical rambling about memory, the search for happiness or fulfillment, mortality, religion or god, and being forgotten, from an atheist/agnostic point of view. Rather than a narrative, linear autobiography, it’s...
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review 1: This is not a book but rather a small pamphlet with Julian Barnes’s ruminations on his life with books as a book fetishist. It doesn’t take long to read, but no more room is needed here. It is like a distillation of thoughts on books; as someone wrote in here, it is like an espr...