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Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarnes, Julian
Summary: "From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending-a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' intellectual shopping: a prince, a count, and a commoner with an Italian name. In time, each of these men would achieve a certain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POZZI, SAMUEL BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio PozziBarnes, Julian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarnes, Julian.
Summary: Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse. This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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BARNES, JULIAN
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Publisher / Publication Date: KNOPF 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824.914 BARBarnes, Julian
Summary: "From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography. This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarnes, Julian
Summary: "A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich--Julian Barnes's first novel since his best-selling, Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending. 1936: Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin,hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarnes, Julian
Summary: "One summer in the sixties, nineteen-year-old Paul comes home from university and joins the tennis club at his mother's urging. He's partnered with Mrs. Susan Mcleod, a fine player who's forty-eight. They bond immediately and soon become lovers. Decades later, with Susan now dead, Paul looks back on their story"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BARBarnes, Julian
Summary: Door een onverwachte erfenis wordt een middelbare man geconfronteerd met zijn niet altijd flatteuze verleden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anagrama 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FICTION BARBarnes, Julian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarnes, Julian.
Summary: An eccentiric, playfully skewed, surprisingly comprehensive chronicle of life on planet Earth. A novel whose threads of coincidence and hidden connection are woven into a narrative tapestry brilliant with wit, intelligence, and emotion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarnes, Julian
Summary: "From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, a novel about a young man on the cusp of adulthood and a woman who is already there, a love story shot through with sheer beauty, profound sadness, and deep truth. Most of us have only one story to tell. I don't mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are countless events, which we turn into countless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarnes, Julian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BARBarnes, Julian.
Summary: A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarnes, Julian.
Summary: Offers an idiosyncratic, revisionist history of life on planet Earth, from a playful account of Noah by a stowaway on the Ark, to the spiritual odyssey of a American astronaut.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarnes, Julian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarnes, Julian.
Summary: This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about until his oldest friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all of this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarnes, Julian
Summary: Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, and an inspiration--always rigorous, always thoughtful. With her historical soulmate, they challenge the institutional monotheistic thinking in which they're surrounded.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BARBarnes, Julian
Summary: "An extraordinary collection--hawk-eyed and understanding--from the Booker Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Sense of an Ending and Levels of Life. As Julian Barnes explains: "Flaubert believed that...great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting....But it is a rare picture that stuns,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knope 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 709.03 BARSummary: Spurred on by the 60s and its radical ideals, boyhood friends Chris and Toni set their sights on a single goal - escape Metroland and its suburban way of life. When they finally break free, Chris travels to Paris where he embarks on a torrid love affair with a French woman. Toni sets off for the great unknown as he explores the world. Nine years pass before Toni returns home. And when he does,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY METSummary: World-famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in this three-part adaptation of Julian Barnes' acclaimed novel follows the separate but intersecting lives of two very different men: a half-Indian son of a vicar who is framed for a crime he may or may not have committed, and Doyle, who investigates the case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015