{"product_id":"metroland-isbn-9780679736080","title":"Metroland","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eA Sense of an Ending\u003c\/i\u003e comes a comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s that is “wonderfully fresh, crackling with nostalgic irreverence” (\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eOnly the author of \u003ci\u003eFlaubert's Parrot\u003c\/i\u003e could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of us call \"growing up\" and others \"selling out.\"One would have to look hard to find a wryer, more lovingly detailed account of intellectual and secual innocence abroad.... \u003ci\u003eMetroland \u003c\/i\u003eportrays at once the disturbing aspects of adulthood and the consolations of maturity, a balance that makes one glad Julian Barnes is still young and still writing.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wonderfully fresh, crackling with nostalgic irreverence.”\u003ci\u003e —Vogue\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\"If all works of fiction were as thoughtful, as subtle, as well constructed, and as funny as \u003ci\u003eMetroland, \u003c\/i\u003ethere would be no more talk of the death of the novel.\" —\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\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.\" —Newsday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Flighty, playful ... Barnes succeeds in vividly re-creating teenage precociousness, particularly what it feels like to be a young male encountering love and sex.\" —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Barnes writes like a dream.\" —\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice Literary Supplement\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","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302185226469,"sku":"NP9780679736080","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679736080.jpg?v=1767732599","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/metroland-isbn-9780679736080","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}