9780754045090

Love, Etc

Julian Barnes

ISBN 10: 0754045099 / 0-7540-4509-9
ISBN 13: 9780754045090
Publisher: Chivers
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Editorial Reviews:
Review:

"[A]n altogether darker, sourer book [than TALKING IT OVER], a meandering saga of middle-age disappointment and bitterness and regret that's been lightly disguised as a tale of revenge. It's also a book that suffers from phoniness and authorial manipulation, a novel that for all its easy readability lacks its predecessor's persuasiveness and charm."

Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 02/09/2001

Review:

"Barnes has certainly left room for--indeed, has set the stage for--a concluding volume. I hope he writes it. Not just because I so enjoy the rumble and swerve of his prose but because he needs to recover and dramatize some of that sense of amour fou that drove the first novel and began to expire here."

Sven Birkerts, New York Times Book Review, 02/25/2001