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  • Staring at the Sun

  • By: Julian Barnes
  • Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
  • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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By: Julian Barnes
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011

Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.
©1986 Julian Barnes (P)2020 Penguin Audio
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Book of two halves

Loved the first half but the dystopian second half rambled somewhat. The narrator was excellent.

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