9780224071987

Book Description: Jonathan Cape. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 022407198X BRAND NEW Lemon Table by Barnes, Julian. Bookseller Inventory # B9780224071987

Book Description: Jonathan Cape, 2004. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. In Stock. 224 pages. 8.82x5.75x0.87 inches. Bookseller Inventory # __022407198X

Book Description: VINTAGE, 2004. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 224mm x 146mm. If Julian Barnes' new collection of stories has a theme it is 'rage in age'. Among the Chinese the lemon is the symbol of death. At the 'lemon table' (a coinage of Sibelius, protagonist of the final story) it is permissible - indeed obligatory - to talk about death, and each of Barnes' characters is facing death, but each in a very different way. The settings range from eighteenth-century Sweden and nineteenth-century Russia to the 'Barnet Shop', a hairdressing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, or a South Bank concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts. In 'Knowing the French' an eighty-four-year old woman, a former teacher 'incarcerated' in an old people's home, begins a correspondence with an author - 'Dear Dr Barnes' - that enriches both their lives. In 'Hygiene' an old soldier makes his regular trips to town to do errands for his wife - stilton from Paxton's. rubber rings for Kilner jars, Elizabeth Arden powder - and to spend the afternoon with a tart balled Babs. These stories are wise, funny, clever and moving. 213 pages. Bookseller Inventory # S2969772

Book Description: VINTAGE, 2004. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 224mm x 146mm. If Julian Barnes' new collection of stories has a theme it is 'rage in age'. Among the Chinese the lemon is the symbol of death. At the 'lemon table' (a coinage of Sibelius, protagonist of the final story) it is permissible - indeed obligatory - to talk about death, and each of Barnes' characters is facing death, but each in a very different way. The settings range from eighteenth-century Sweden and nineteenth-century Russia to the 'Barnet Shop', a hairdressing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, or a South Bank concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts. In 'Knowing the French' an eighty-four-year old woman, a former teacher 'incarcerated' in an old people's home, begins a correspondence with an author - 'Dear Dr Barnes' - that enriches both their lives. In 'Hygiene' an old soldier makes his regular trips to town to do errands for his wife - stilton from Paxton's. rubber rings for Kilner jars, Elizabeth Arden powder - and to spend the afternoon with a tart balled Babs. These stories are wise, funny, clever and moving. 213 pages. Bookseller Inventory # S2969772

Book Description: VINTAGE, 2004. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 224mm x 146mm. If Julian Barnes' new collection of stories has a theme it is 'rage in age'. Among the Chinese the lemon is the symbol of death. At the 'lemon table' (a coinage of Sibelius, protagonist of the final story) it is permissible - indeed obligatory - to talk about death, and each of Barnes' characters is facing death, but each in a very different way. The settings range from eighteenth-century Sweden and nineteenth-century Russia to the 'Barnet Shop', a hairdressing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, or a South Bank concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts. In 'Knowing the French' an eighty-four-year old woman, a former teacher 'incarcerated' in an old people's home, begins a correspondence with an author - 'Dear Dr Barnes' - that enriches both their lives. In 'Hygiene' an old soldier makes his regular trips to town to do errands for his wife - stilton from Paxton's. rubber rings for Kilner jars, Elizabeth Arden powder - and to spend the afternoon with a tart balled Babs. These stories are wise, funny, clever and moving. 213 pages. Bookseller Inventory # S2969772