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Prestige, contemplative, classical in form and character-led.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Julian Barnes
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 197
- Publisher
- Vintage International, J. Cape, Perennial Library
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780679748205
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Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book *The Sense of an Ending* (2011). He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories. - Wikipedia
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