Staring at the Sun - Julian Barnes torrent

Category: Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Coming of Age Mortality postmodern Seven Wonders Of The World

Written by Julian Barnes
Read by Polly Lee
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged

Jean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes’ wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom. And as Barnes - winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending - follows her from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, he confronts his audience with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalogue of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the 21st century (when the absolute truth can be universally accessed).

Elegant, funny and intellectually subversive, Staring at the Sun is Julian Barnes at his most dazzlingly original.

Audio Release Date:
May 18 2020

8 hrs and 5 mins