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Metroland by Julian Barnes (1992, Paperback, Reissue) 
Metroland by Julian Barnes (1992, Paperback, Reissue)

 
Metroland by Julian Barnes (1992, Paperback, Reissue)

Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1992-11-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0679736085
ISBN-13: 9780679736080
Product ID: EPID669028
Description: Julian Barnes's first novel, published in 1980, is about a Francophile growing up in stifling English suburbia. He grows up to be a young man whose main ambition, to be outrageous, evolves into a competition with a friend, in which they ...
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Synopsis
Julian Barnes's first novel, published in 1980, is about a Francophile growing up in stifling English suburbia. He grows up to be a young man whose main ambition, to be outrageous, evolves into a competition with a friend, in which they bet money on who can be more shocking.

Details
Publication Date:1992-11-01
Edition Description:Reissue

Size
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:7.2 oz

Publisher's Note
Only the author of Flaubert's Parrot could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of us call "growing up" and others "selling out." "Barnes writes like a dream."--Village Voice Literary Supplement.

Industry Reviews
"The first section...is an exercise in the post-Portnoy school of adolescent self-revelation, the 'Look what a s*** I am' movement of which Martin Amis has hitherto been the outstanding practitioner. Barnes handles it cleverly enough, but..in the second section...he suddenly goes much deeper. The account of a boy's emergence from the self-absorption of adolescence is grippingly and sensitively done...If all first works of fiction were as thoughtful, as subtle, as well-constructed and as funny as 'Metroland' there would be no more talk of the death of the novel."
New Statesman - Nicholas Shrimpton (03/28/1980)

"...he seems to respect the foibles and poses of adolescence and young manhood as things to be cherished and valued in their own right rather than merely being excuses for a few easy laughs; a fact which makes 'Metroland' a rare and unusual first novel."
London Magazine - William Boyd

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