England, England

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'Julian Barnes' England, England is both funny and serious, a double-act that English novels rarely manage he has mastery of his craft. Despite its light touch, England, England is a philosophical novel about authenticity and the idea of replica. There is no more intelligent writer on the literary scene. In this novel he is also moving. He has written nothing more poignant and enticing'
John Carey, Sunday limes
'Both ambitious and serious - real if you like. Dive at those dump-bins' Andrew Marr, Observer
'Barnes is a word-perfect parodist. . . The first section is an extraordinarily delicate portrait of the childhood of Martha an elegiac final section' Laura Gumming, Guardian
'A brilliant, Swiftian fantasy' Economist
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Cover illustration by Neil Gower '^
'The novel has memorable characters and sentences, but its main impact will be through its penetrating ideas' John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph
'Julian Barnes' cautionary tales run with fine eagerness towards... Tovább

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'Julian Barnes' England, England is both funny and serious, a double-act that English novels rarely manage he has mastery of his craft. Despite its light touch, England, England is a philosophical novel about authenticity and the idea of replica. There is no more intelligent writer on the literary scene. In this novel he is also moving. He has written nothing more poignant and enticing'
John Carey, Sunday limes
'Both ambitious and serious - real if you like. Dive at those dump-bins' Andrew Marr, Observer
'Barnes is a word-perfect parodist. . . The first section is an extraordinarily delicate portrait of the childhood of Martha an elegiac final section' Laura Gumming, Guardian
'A brilliant, Swiftian fantasy' Economist
•»sr.


Cover illustration by Neil Gower '^
'The novel has memorable characters and sentences, but its main impact will be through its penetrating ideas' John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph
'Julian Barnes' cautionary tales run with fine eagerness towards the essay: think of Flaubert's Parrot and A History ofthe World in 10 Ui Chapters. This latest venture will delight his huge European following as surely as those novels did. Deservedly so, even if here the essayistic enticements are firmly subdued to the regular pleasures of narrative. Not, though, that Barnes' scathing eye for the follies and mistakings of story ever falters' Valentine Cunningham, Independent Vissza