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Availability:In StockContributor:Julian BarnesSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:1990-11-27Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679731375ISBN-10:679731377UPC:9780679731375Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Visionary & Metaphysical, Short Stories (single author)Size:8.03 x 5.14 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCTW7Z2XD0
A "playful, witty, and entertaining" book (The New York Times Book Review) that offers an exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven--from the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending.

It's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories of a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists and of woodworms tried for blasphemy in sixteenth-century France. It explores the relationship of fact to fabulation and the antagonism between history and love. In short, A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters is a grandly ambitious and inventive work of fiction, in the traditions of Joyce and Calvino, from the author of the widely acclaimed Flaubert's Parrot.

Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679731375ISBN-10:679731377UPC:9780679731375Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Visionary & Metaphysical, Short Stories (single author)Size:8.03 x 5.14 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCTW7Z2XD0
Born in Leicester in 1946, Julian Barnes is the author of nine novels, a book of stories, and a collection of essays. He has won both the Prix Médicis and the Prix Fémina, and in 1988 was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London.
Publisher: Vintage

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