num_pages: 208
description: The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending traces the life of a seemingly ordinary woman with an extraordinary disdain for wisdom in this “marvelous literary epiphany” ( The New York Times Book Review ).In this wonderfully provocative novel, Barnes follows Jean Serjeant from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, confronting readers with the fruits of her relentless pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalogue of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed).Elegant, funny and intellectually subversive, Staring at the Sun is Julian Barnes at his most dazzlingly original.
language: English
title: Staring at the Sun
titlecomplete: Staring at the Sun
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Modern, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1857
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group