Julian Barnes

Nothing to Be Frightened Of

Nothing to Be Frightened Of: A Memoir

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A national bestseller and "New York Times" Best Book of the Year, "Nothing tobe Frightened Of" offers a highly personal essay on mortality that touches onfaith, science, and family.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Children's Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 130mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 261g
• ISBN-13: 9780307389985
• ISBN-10: 0307389987
• Artikelnr.: 26571977

Autorenporträt

JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty-four books, for which he has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the David Cohen Prize for Literature, and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the French Prix Médicis and Prix Femina; the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London.

Rezensionen

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