Lemon Table

Barnes, Julian

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In this collection of stories it is permissible – indeed obligatory – to talk about death at the ‘lemon table’, and each of Julian Barnes’ characters is facing death, but each in a very different way.

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Publish Date: 06/01/2011

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011

From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts; from the woman who reads elaborate recipes to her sick husband as a substitute for sex, to the woman ‘incarcerated’ in an old people’s home beginning a correspondence with an author that enriches both their lives – all Barnes’ characters, in their different ways, square up to death and rage against the dying light.

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Weight 182 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 14 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

213

Language

English

Edition

Short stories

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K