Pulse

Pulse is Barnes’s 17th book and is a masterclass in the shorter form. – Elizabeth Day * Observer *Julian Barnes writes so exquisitely that every page of this collection contains literary pearls * Mail on Sunday *All the stories in Pulse have the absolute completeness and density of the very best short fiction * New Statesman *Masterclasses in the form, full of the sidelong wit and intelligence that make the writer one of our most consistently deft short-form stylists * Daily Telegraph *Barnes’ stylish prose, eye for emotional detail and sense of absurdity never let him down… He suits the short story very well * Literary Review *The prose is crisp and elegant, light on its feet but resonant with pathos, and flecked with acute observations that never fail to strike a vivid chord with the reader…. It all makes for a diverse, entertaining collection, alternating between plangency and playfulness – Sebastian Shakespeare * Tatler *

Julian Barnes is the author of fourteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Booker Prize, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and five works of non-fiction, including Nothing to Be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life. He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime contribution to literature in 2011, and the Legion d’honneur in 2017.

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