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      Staring at the Sun

      by Julian Barnes
      Published
      Mar 1987
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      197
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      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 curiosity: 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.

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      Jan 1988 HarperPerennial ISBN13 9780060971489 ISBN10 0060971487
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      Oct 1993 Vintage ISBN13 9780679748205 ISBN10 0679748202
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      Oct 2009 Vintage ISBN13 9780099540090 ISBN10 0099540096
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      First Edition Mar 1987 Knopf ISBN13 9780394558219 ISBN10 0394558219
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      May 2020 Recorded Books ISBN10 B088P6C5B6
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