Staring At The Sun Paperback by Julian Barnes

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (1988-04-27)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 208 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780394220475
• Item Weight: 255.15 grams
• Dimensions: 21.59 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm

Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020.

We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.

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.