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Levels of life [electronic resource] / by Julian Barnes.
Summary:
Julian Barnes, author of the Man Booker Prize--winning novel The Sense of an Ending, gives us his most powerfully moving book yet, beginning in the nineteenth century and leading seamlessly into an entirely personal account of loss--making Levels of Life an immediate classic on the subject of grief.Levels of Life is a book about ballooning, photography, love and loss; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded Barnes the 2011 Booker Prize described him as "an unparalleled magus of the heart." This book confirms that opinion. "Spare and beautiful...a book of rare intimacy and honesty about love and grief. To read it is a privilege. To have written it is astonishing." --Ruth Scurr, The Times of London"A remarkable narrative that is as raw in its emotion as it is characteristically elegant in its execution." --Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345813572 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 034581357X (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780385350785 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0385350783 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Random House of Canada, 2013.
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- Formatted Contents Note:
- The sin of height -- On the level -- The loss of depth.
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- Baker & Taylor
A follow-up to The Sense of an Ending traces the Man Booker Prize-winning writer's life from the 19th-century events that shaped his world to his transformative experiences with ballooning, photography, love and loss. - Random House, Inc.
Part history, part fiction, part memoir, Levels of Life is a powerfully personal and unforgettable book, and an immediate classic on the subject of grief.
Levels of Life opens in the nineteenth century with balloonists, photographers and Sarah Bernhardt, whose adventures lead seamlessly into an entirely personal account of the author's own great loss.
"You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed." Levels of Life is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the Booker Prize described Barnes as "an unparalleled magus of the heart." This book confirms that opinion.