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Nothing to be Frightened Of
Julian Barnes
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Description for Nothing to be Frightened Of
Paperback. A family memoir, an exchange with the author's brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher brother, a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. Though he warns us that 'this is not my autobiography', the result is a tour of the mind of one of our most brilliant writers.
'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher brother, a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. Though he warns us that 'this is not my autobiography', the result is a tour of the mind of one of our most brilliant writers.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099523741
SKU
V9780099523741
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About Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing To Be Frightened Of, which won the 2021 Yasnaya Polyana Prize in Russia. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.
Reviews for Nothing to be Frightened Of
Both fun and funny. It is sharp too, in the sense of painful as well as witty... Barnes dissects with tremendous verve and insight this awesome inevitability of death and its impact on the human psyche. He also tears at your heart
New Statesman
A maverick form of family memoir that is mainly an extended reflection on the fear of death and on that great consolation, religious belief... It is entertaining, intriguing, absorbing...an inventive and invigorating slant on what is nowadays called 'life writing'. It took me hours to write this review because each reference to my notes set me off rereading; that is a reviewer's ultimate accolade
Penelope Lively
Financial Times
A brilliant bible of elegant despair...that most urgent kind of self-help manual: the one you must read before you die
Tim Adams
Vogue
Intensely fascinating
The Times
An elegant memoir and meditation. A deep seismic tremor of a book that keeps rumbling and grumbling in the mind for weeks thereafter
Garrison Keillor
An essay in the best sense: speculative and precise, intimate and metaphysical, capacious and democratic in the variety of voices, alive and dead, that are invited to counsel the author as he edges his way towards the void
TLS
Intensely serious book of striking elegance: a clever, complicated reverie on last things, so full of ideas as to reveal itself quite slowly, through frequent re-reading
Jane Shilling
Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year
A fantastic work of non-fiction, a showcase for his elegantly unfussy sentences and Barnes's ability to burrow to the very bottom of a subject, no matter how daunting
Colin Waters
The Sunday Herald
Julian Barnes takes on the ambitious subject of death - and succeeds brilliantly
William Leith
Scotsman
It is a sincere, humble work, punctuated by moments of poignancy
Colm Farren
The Irish Times
New Statesman
A maverick form of family memoir that is mainly an extended reflection on the fear of death and on that great consolation, religious belief... It is entertaining, intriguing, absorbing...an inventive and invigorating slant on what is nowadays called 'life writing'. It took me hours to write this review because each reference to my notes set me off rereading; that is a reviewer's ultimate accolade
Penelope Lively
Financial Times
A brilliant bible of elegant despair...that most urgent kind of self-help manual: the one you must read before you die
Tim Adams
Vogue
Intensely fascinating
The Times
An elegant memoir and meditation. A deep seismic tremor of a book that keeps rumbling and grumbling in the mind for weeks thereafter
Garrison Keillor
An essay in the best sense: speculative and precise, intimate and metaphysical, capacious and democratic in the variety of voices, alive and dead, that are invited to counsel the author as he edges his way towards the void
TLS
Intensely serious book of striking elegance: a clever, complicated reverie on last things, so full of ideas as to reveal itself quite slowly, through frequent re-reading
Jane Shilling
Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year
A fantastic work of non-fiction, a showcase for his elegantly unfussy sentences and Barnes's ability to burrow to the very bottom of a subject, no matter how daunting
Colin Waters
The Sunday Herald
Julian Barnes takes on the ambitious subject of death - and succeeds brilliantly
William Leith
Scotsman
It is a sincere, humble work, punctuated by moments of poignancy
Colm Farren
The Irish Times