{"product_id":"cross-channel-isbn-9780679767558","title":"Cross Channel","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sense of an Ending,\u003c\/i\u003e his first collection of short stories explores the vast divide between England and France. • “A witty, playful and ironic writer at the top of his form.\" —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection, Barnes explores the narrow body of water containing the vast sea of prejudice and misapprehension which lies between England and France with acuity, humor, and compassion. For whether Barnes's English characters come to France as conquerors or hostages, laborers, athletes, or aesthetes, what they discover, alongside rich food and barbarous sexual and religious practices, is their own ineradicable Englishness. The ten stories that make up Cross Channel introduce us to a plethora of intriguing, original, and sometimes ill-fated characters. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElegantly conceived and seductively written, \u003ci\u003eCross Channel\u003c\/i\u003e is further evidence of Barnes's wizardry.\"Barnes is a witty, playful and ironic writer at the top of his form ... \u003ci\u003eCross Channel\u003c\/i\u003e is in the best sense an artful book.\" \u003ci\u003e—San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fluently written, finely observed ... delicately patterned.\" \u003ci\u003e—The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003eJulian Barnes was born in Leicester in 1946 and educated in London and Oxford. He worked as a lexicographer on the Oxford English Dictionary, then as a journalist for the \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman,\u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eObserver.\u003c\/i\u003e He is the author of eight novels, a collection of essays, a book of short stories, and is the first Englishman to have won both the Prix Medicis and the Prix Femina. In 1988 he was made a Chevalier and in 1995 he became an Officier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303386829029,"sku":"NP9780679767558","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679767558.jpg?v=1767724284","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/cross-channel-isbn-9780679767558","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}