{"product_id":"julian-barnes-by-peter-childs-9780719097607","title":"Julian Barnes","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow available in paperback, \u003cem\u003eJulian Barnes\u003c\/em\u003e is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy. It pursues a broadly chronological line through Barnes's literary career, but along the way, it also shows how certain key thematic preoccupations and obsessions seem to tie Barnes's oeuvre together, such as love, death, art, history, truth, and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChapters provide detailed readings of each major publication in turn while treating the major concerns of Barnes's fiction, including art, authorship, history, love, and religion. The book is very lucidly written and is also satisfyingly comprehensive. Alongside the canonical Barnes texts, it includes brief but illuminating discussion of the crime fiction that Barnes has published under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis detailed study of the fictions of Julian Barnes from \u003cem\u003eMetroland\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eArthur \u0026amp; George\u003c\/em\u003e also benefits from archival research into his unpublished materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471046983916,"sku":"9780719097607","price":46.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780719097607-julian-barnes.jpg?v=1775231239","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/julian-barnes-by-peter-childs-9780719097607","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}