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Staring at the Sun

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Staring at the Sun

By: Julian Barnes
Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011


Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.

©1986 Julian Barnes (P)2020 Penguin Audio
20th Century Family Life Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural Women's Fiction Fiction
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Loved the first half but the dystopian second half rambled somewhat. The narrator was excellent.

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