Talking It Over by Julian Barnes - ISBN: 9780099540137
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Best friends, love, marriage, betrayal: whose version of the truth is real?

Talking It Over

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    1 October 2009

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Summary

A ‘wonderfully funny..intelligent…moving’ novel from Man Booker Prize-winning Julian Barnes.

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a novel of profound insight and comic flare.

Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart’s best friend Oliver is his complete opposite - a language teacher who ‘talks like a dictionary’,…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099540137
ISBN-10:0099540134
Author:Julian Barnes
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:1 October 2009
Weight:226g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 20mm
Series:Vintage Books
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Critics Review

Few writers think and talk so beguilingly. This book is wonderfully funny. And intelligent. And moving

Few writers think and talk so beguilingly. This book is wonderfully funny. And intelligent. And moving * Independent on Sunday *
Quicksilver clever and allusive * The Times *
Scintillating… It’s funny, quick on the draw, and knows when to soften the gaze. It reads so smoothly, the pages seem to flip themselves * Observer *
A writer of rare intelligence. He catches the detail of contemporary life with an uncanny forensic skill… He is, as always, a superb ironist, a connoisseur of middling, muddling, modern England * London Review of Books *
A wonderfully wistful and funny novel * Daily Telegraph *
The author is not merely a dazzling entertainer, he is a no-nonsense moralist as well, and is as dextrous with the darker elements of betrayal and pain as with the farcical mechanics of love and clashing temperament * New Yorker *

About The Author

Julian Barnes

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 Légion d’honneur in 2017.

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