Staring at the Sun

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A fighter pilot, highabove the English Channel in 1941, watches the sun rise; he descends10,000 feet and then, to his amazement, finds the sun beginning to riseagain. With this haunting image Julian Barnes' novel begins. It chartsthe life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginnings as a naive, carefreecountry girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age inthe year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, herquestioning of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China;we learnt the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactoryanswers it provides
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Barnes
Julian - Language
- English
- Release date
- 1986