Cross Channel
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No one has a better perspective on life on both sides of the channel than Julian Barnes. In these exquisitely crafted stories spanning several centuries, he takes as his universal theme the British in France; from the last days of a reclusive English composer, the beef consuming ‘navvies’ labouring on the Paris-Rouen railway to a lonely woman mourning the death of her brother on the battlefields of the Somme.Combining the intellectual audacity of A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters with the francophilia of the acclaimed Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes explores the English experience of France over the centuries with dazzling wit and sophistication.

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Weight 1.37 kg
Dimensions 1.55 × 13.16 × 2.3 cm
PubliCanadation City/Country

Canada
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Format

Paperback
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Publisher

Year Published

1997-2-11
Imprint

ISBN 10

0679308458
About The Author

JULIAN BARNES is the author of numerous books, for which he has received the Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Prix Médicis and Prix Femina. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur, and in 2021 the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London.

"Barnes is a witty, playful and ironic writer at the top of his form . . . Cross Channel is in the best sense an artful book." —San Francisco Chronicle"Fluently written, finely observed . . . delicately patterned." —The New York Times

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