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"One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, Paul comes home from university, aged nineteen, and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. In the mixed-doubles tournament he's partnered with Susan Mcleod, a fine player who's forty-eight, confident, ironic, and married, with two nearly adult daughters. She is also a warm companion, their bond immediate. And they soon, inevitably, are lovers. Clinging to each other as though their lives depend on it, they then set up house in London to escape his parents and the abusive Mr. Mcleod"--
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-525-56306-8
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publishing date05/03/2019
SeriesVintage International
Pages272 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 131 mm, Height 204 mm, Thickness 22 mm
Weight268 g
Article no.5925429
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.28228433
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Julian Barnes is the author of twenty-two previous books, most recently The Noise of Time. He received the Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending, and has also received the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the David Cohen Prize for Literature, and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the French Prix Medicis and Prix Femina; the Austrian State Prize for European Literature; and in 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'Honneur by the French government. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London.

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