Staring at the Sun

Barnes, Julian

ISBN 10: 0224024140 / ISBN 13: 9780224024143

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1986

About this Item

No dustwrapper, slight bumping to top outer corner of front board, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Number 89 of 150 copies signed by the author and specially bound for London Limited Editions. Brown cloth spine with gilt titles, paper-covered boards with green marbled-effect pattern. The dustwrapper issued with this edition was a plain glassine one (like grease-proof paper). The author's fourth novel, the story deals with the life of an ordinary woman from the 1920s up to an imagined 2020. 195pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Staring at the Sun
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224024140
• ISBN 13: 9780224024143
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed & Association Copies
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Edition, Cape 1980. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind, original Jonathtan Cape review slip loosely inserted. Bound in bright gilt lettered black cloth, together with very good original unclipped (£9.95) Cathy Wood designed sunset over sea dustwrapper. Housed and protected in removable transparent wrapper.

From the Back Cover

Jean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes's wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary, but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom. And as Barnes--author of The Porcupine and Talking It Over--follows her from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, he confronts readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalog of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed).