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Staring at the Sun

by Julian Barnes
Staring at the Sun - Thryft
Staring at the Sun - Thryft

A thought-provoking journey through time and knowledge.

This book could be a good read for you if you are someone who constantly seeks knowledge and enjoys contemplating the deeper questions in life. Julian Barnes takes you on a captivating journey through time, following the life of Jean Serjeant, a woman with an extraordinary thirst for curiosity. With elegant prose and witty humor, Barnes explores themes of wisdom, technology, and the pursuit of absolute truth. Staring at the Sun will leave you questioning your own beliefs and pondering the vastness of human knowledge.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Staring at the Sun

by Julian Barnes
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ISBN: 9780679748205
Authors: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date of Publication: 1993-09-28
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.53
(rated by 1883 readers)

Description

The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending traces the life of a seemingly ordinary woman with an extraordinary disdain for wisdom in this “marvelous literary epiphany” ( The New York Times Book Review ).In this wonderfully provocative novel, Barnes follows Jean Serjeant from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, confronting readers with the fruits of her relentless pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalogue of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed).Elegant, funny and intellectually subversive, Staring at the Sun is Julian Barnes at his most dazzlingly original.
 

A thought-provoking journey through time and knowledge.

This book could be a good read for you if you are someone who constantly seeks knowledge and enjoys contemplating the deeper questions in life. Julian Barnes takes you on a captivating journey through time, following the life of Jean Serjeant, a woman with an extraordinary thirst for curiosity. With elegant prose and witty humor, Barnes explores themes of wisdom, technology, and the pursuit of absolute truth. Staring at the Sun will leave you questioning your own beliefs and pondering the vastness of human knowledge.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.