{"product_id":"before-she-met-me-isbn-9780679736097","title":"Before She Met Me","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sense of an Ending\u003c\/i\u003e delivers “a remarkably original and subtle book” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e) about the nature of love and jealousy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the start of this fiendishly comic and suspenseful novel, a mild-mannered English academic chuckles as he watches his wife commit adultery. The action takes place before she met him. But lines between film and reality, past and present become terrifyingly blurred in this sad and funny tour de force from the author of \u003ci\u003eFlaubert's Parrot.\u003c\/i\u003e“An intelligent and addictive entertainment.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Excellent … A remarkably original and subtle book.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Julian Barnes [is] one of today's most rewarding writers.\" —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Barnes] is not merely a dazzling entertainer ... he 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\"Funny, sad, faintly ominous…making jealousy tangible and dangerous.\" —\u003ci\u003eSpectator \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Concise and witty about psychology, ideas and love, in all its many forms\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Times\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.Author of Flaubert's Parrot and Talking it Over Vintage International","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303543066853,"sku":"NP9780679736097","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679736097.jpg?v=1767722365","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/before-she-met-me-isbn-9780679736097","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}