Staring at the Sun

Fiction & Literature, Literary
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Author: Julian Barnes ISBN: 9780307797797
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: June 15, 2011
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Julian Barnes
ISBN: 9780307797797
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: June 15, 2011
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

Jean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes's wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary, but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom. And as Barnes follows her from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, he confronts readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalog of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed).

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Jean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes's wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary, but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom. And as Barnes follows her from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, he confronts readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalog of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed).

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