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Arthur & George (Vintage 21st Anniv Editions)

Arthur & George (Vintage 21st Anniv Editions)

by JulianBarnes (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages. With vivid imagination, Julian Barnes brings this long forgotten case to life, and explores the inner workings of these two very different men.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 512
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04 Aug 2011
ISBN 10: 0099563177
ISBN 13: 9780099563174
Book Overview: A special celebratory edition to mark the 21st birthday of Vintage books.

Media Reviews
From the first paragraphs we know ourselves to be in the hands of a major novelist and are borne forward by a compelling narrative, beautifully controlled, which combines the satisfactions of biography, social history and the excitement and ratiocination of a real-life detective story. This novel is Barnes at his best. The Times As ever, Barnes serves up a master-class in character observation, lavishing attention on the minutiae of personality, the subtle and conflicting impulses that drive men and women. Barnes seems equipped to write with humour and elegance about anything he turns his attention to. Financial Times A fine literary detective novel and a rich evocation of a somewhat troubled England on the cusp of modernity. Mail on Sunday A beguiling and enormously readable novel. Independent Clearly a wonderful book...Barnes's best yet. Evening Standard
Author Bio
Julian Barnes is the author of eleven novels, including The Sense of an Ending, Metroland, Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 10 Chapters and Arthur & George; three books of short stories, Cross Channel, The Lemon Table and Pulse; and also three collections of journalism, Letters from London, Something to Declare, and The Pedant in the Kitchen. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Medicis (for Flaubert's Parrot) and the Prix Femina (for Talking it Over). He was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2004, the David Cohen Prize for Literature and the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. He lives in London.