{"product_id":"staring-at-the-sun-isbn-9780679748205","title":"Staring at the Sun","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sense of an Ending\u003c\/i\u003e traces the life of a seemingly ordinary woman with an extraordinary disdain for wisdom in this “marvelous literary epiphany” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElegant, funny and intellectually subversive, \u003ci\u003eStaring at the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is Julian Barnes at his most dazzlingly original.“Brilliant ... a marvelous literary epiphany.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Barnes’s literary energy and daring are nearly unparalleled.”—\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Julian Barnes is one of a handful of innovative English novelists who have succeeded in pulling the English novel out of the provincial rut in which it lay.\" —\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Barnes's books ... celebrate the human imagination, the human heart, the boisterous diversity of our gene pool, our activities, our delusions.... They thrill the mind and the emotions; and he achieves, without tricks or puns, what Nabokov loved: esthetic bliss.\" —\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Julian Barnes [is] one of today's most rewarding writers.\" —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Not merely a dazzling entertainer ... [Barnes] is a no-nonsense moralist as well, and is as dexterous with the darker elements of betrayal and pain as with the farcical mechanics of love and clashing temperaments.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of England’s most interesting and provocative novelists … Barnes display[s] a remarkable versatility, a dashing wit, and a sense of irony that keeps his wonderfully idiosyncratic creations under tight control.” —\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Barnes] demonstrates what a fabulous independent voice can accomplish when it keeps kicking away the crutches of contemporary fiction.” \u003ci\u003e—Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003eBorn in Leicester in 1946, Julian Barnes is the author of nine novels, a book of   stories, and a collection of essays.  He has won both the Prix Médicis and the Prix   Fémina, and in 1988 was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.  He   lives in London.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304346079461,"sku":"NP9780679748205","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679748205.jpg?v=1767737259","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/staring-at-the-sun-isbn-9780679748205","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}