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A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters
Barnes, Julian.
Adult Fiction BARNES
From Publishers' Weekly:
Noah's Ark, Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa and ``an offbeat vision of the Hereafter'' are some of the ingredients of this pyrotechnical work. ``Admirers of Barnes are accustomed to thoroughly unorthodox approaches to the novel, and his latest, while brilliantly entertaining, certainly strains the limits of the genre,'' PW remarked. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
From Library Journal:
A revisionist view of Noah's Ark, told by the stowaway woodworm. A chilling account of terrorists hijacking a cruise ship. A court case in 16th-century France in which the woodworm stand accused. A desperate woman's attempt to escape radioactive fallout on a raft. An acute analysis of Gericault's ``Scene of Shipwreck.'' The search of a 19th-century Englishwoman and of a contemporary American astronaut for Noah's Ark. An actor's increasingly desperate letters to his silent lover. A thoughtful meditation on the novelist's responsibility regarding love. These and other stories make up Barnes's witty and sometimes acerbic retelling of the history of the world. The stories are connected, if only tangentially, which is precisely Barnes's point: historians may tell us that ``there was a pattern,'' but history is ``just voices echoing in the dark; . . . strange links, impertinent connections.'' Fascinating reading from the author of Flaubert's Parrot , but not for those wanting conventional plot.-- Barbara Hoffert, ``Library Journal'' (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Barnes, Julian.
Adult Fiction BARNES
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From Publishers' Weekly:
Noah's Ark, Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa and ``an offbeat vision of the Hereafter'' are some of the ingredients of this pyrotechnical work. ``Admirers of Barnes are accustomed to thoroughly unorthodox approaches to the novel, and his latest, while brilliantly entertaining, certainly strains the limits of the genre,'' PW remarked. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
From Library Journal:
A revisionist view of Noah's Ark, told by the stowaway woodworm. A chilling account of terrorists hijacking a cruise ship. A court case in 16th-century France in which the woodworm stand accused. A desperate woman's attempt to escape radioactive fallout on a raft. An acute analysis of Gericault's ``Scene of Shipwreck.'' The search of a 19th-century Englishwoman and of a contemporary American astronaut for Noah's Ark. An actor's increasingly desperate letters to his silent lover. A thoughtful meditation on the novelist's responsibility regarding love. These and other stories make up Barnes's witty and sometimes acerbic retelling of the history of the world. The stories are connected, if only tangentially, which is precisely Barnes's point: historians may tell us that ``there was a pattern,'' but history is ``just voices echoing in the dark; . . . strange links, impertinent connections.'' Fascinating reading from the author of Flaubert's Parrot , but not for those wanting conventional plot.-- Barbara Hoffert, ``Library Journal'' (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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