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By: Barnes, Julian
Price: ¥700.00
Publisher: Knopf: 2008
Seller ID: RWARE0000044907
ISBN: 0307269639
Condition: Very Good/Very Good
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Two years after the best-selling Arthur & George, Julian Barnes gives us a memoir on mortality that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted t he same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevi table extinction. If the fear of death is "the most rational thing in the world," how does on e contend with it? An atheist at twenty, an agnost... View more info
By: Barnes, Julian
Price: ¥500.00
Publisher: Random House Export: 2014
Seller ID: RWARE0000044795
ISBN: 0099570335
Condition: Very Good
This Man Booker Prize-winning novel is now a major motion picture. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sens e of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes 's oeuvre. This intense novel follows Tony Webster, a middle-aged man, as he contends with a past he never thought much about--until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony thought he left this all behind as he built a life for... View more info