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Through the window / Julian Barnes.
- Title
- Through the window / Julian Barnes.
- Author
- Barnes, Julian
- Publication
- New York : Vintage Books, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR6052.A6657 T48 2012 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xix, 243 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- In these seventeen essays (plus a short story and a special preface), Julian Barnes examines the British, French, and American writers who have shaped his own writing, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A life with books -- The deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald -- The 'unpoetical' Clough -- George Orwell and the fucking elephant -- Ford's 'The good soldier' -- Ford and Provence -- Ford's Anglican saint -- Kipling's France -- France's Kipling -- The wisdom of Chamfort -- The man who saved old France -- The profile of Félix Fénéon -- Michel Houellebecq and the sin of despair -- Translating 'Madame Bovary' -- Wharton's 'The reef' -- Homage to Hemingway ; a short story -- Lorrie Moore takes wing -- Remembering Updike, remembering Rabbit -- Regulating sorrow.
- ISBN
- 9780345805508
- LCCN
- ^^2012035278
- OCLC
- 807024573
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library