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    Julian Barnes

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    This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'... ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #history #time #family

    Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter? ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #ageing #colour #excitement #perspective #youth

    Tertullian said of Christian belief that it was true because it was impossible. Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary. ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #religion #love

    ... forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on. ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #ageing #life #age

    wear flannel next to your skin, and never believe in eternal punishment. ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #inspirational #inspirational

    In life, every ending is just the start of another story. ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #story #love

    Some Englishman once said that marriage is a long dull meal with the pudding served first. ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #marriage #pudding #life

    He died a modern death, in hospital,........after medical science had prolonged his life to a point where the terms on which it was being offered were unimpressive. ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #death

    What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths. ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #beauty

    Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young, erode. We end up belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself. [p. 66] ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #age






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    Forster Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
    1981 Somerset Maugham Award


    List of works
    Novels
    Metroland (1980)
    Before She Met Me (1982)
    Flaubert's Parrot (1984) – shortlisted for the Booker Prize
    Staring at the Sun (1986)
    A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (1989)
    Talking It Over (1991)
    The Porcupine (1992)
    England England (1998) – shortlisted for the Booker Prize
    Love etc (2000) – sequel to Talking it Over
    Arthur & George (2005) – shortlisted for the Booker Prize
    The Sense of an Ending (2011) – winner of the Booker Prize
    Collections and non-fiction
    Letters from London (Picador London 1995) – journalism from The New Yorker ISBN 0-330-34116-2
    Cross Channel (1996) – stories
    Something to Declare (2002) – essays
    The Pedant in the Kitchen (2003) – journalism on cooking
    The Lemon Table (2004) – stories
    Nothing to Be Frightened Of (2008) – memoir
    Pulse (2011) – stories
    Through the Window (2012) – essays
    Works as Dan Kavanagh
    Duffy (1980)
    Fiddle City (1981)
    Putting the Boot In (1985)
    Going to the Dogs (1987)


    Further reading
    Peter Childs Julian Barnes (Contemporary British Novelists) Manchester University Press (2011)
    Sebastian Groes & Peter Childs eds. At the age of 10 Barnes was told by his mother that he had "too much imagination". England England is a humorous novel that explores the idea of national identity as the entrepreneur Sir Jack Pitman creates a theme park on the Isle of Wight that duplicates the tourist spots of England.

    Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is a contemporary English writer. Barnes has also won several literary prizes in France including the Prix Médicis for Flaubert's Parrot and the Prix Femina for Talking It Over.

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