A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters
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glade1
of McLeansville, North Carolina USA on 10/29/2013
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
glade1 of McLeansville, North Carolina USA on 10/29/2013 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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Picked up from the free shelf at the used book store today. From Amazon:
A revisionist view of Noah's Ark, told by the stowaway woodworm. A chilling account of terrorists hijacking a cruise ship. A court case in 16th-century France in which the woodworm stand accused. A desperate woman's attempt to escape radioactive fallout on a raft. An acute analysis of Gericault's "Scene of Shipwreck." The search of a 19th-century Englishwoman and of a contemporary American astronaut for Noah's Ark. An actor's increasingly desperate letters to his silent lover. A thoughtful meditation on the novelist's responsibility regarding love. These and other stories make up Barnes's witty and sometimes acerbic retelling of the history of the world. The stories are connected, if only tangentially, which is precisely Barnes's point: historians may tell us that "there was a pattern," but history is "just voices echoing in the dark; . . . strange links, impertinent connections." Fascinating reading from the author of Flaubert's Parrot , but not for those wanting conventional plot.
A revisionist view of Noah's Ark, told by the stowaway woodworm. A chilling account of terrorists hijacking a cruise ship. A court case in 16th-century France in which the woodworm stand accused. A desperate woman's attempt to escape radioactive fallout on a raft. An acute analysis of Gericault's "Scene of Shipwreck." The search of a 19th-century Englishwoman and of a contemporary American astronaut for Noah's Ark. An actor's increasingly desperate letters to his silent lover. A thoughtful meditation on the novelist's responsibility regarding love. These and other stories make up Barnes's witty and sometimes acerbic retelling of the history of the world. The stories are connected, if only tangentially, which is precisely Barnes's point: historians may tell us that "there was a pattern," but history is "just voices echoing in the dark; . . . strange links, impertinent connections." Fascinating reading from the author of Flaubert's Parrot , but not for those wanting conventional plot.
What a fun and thought-provoking read! Julian Barnes gives us a "history of the world" via short stories and even non-fiction, which can be read separately but which also have some recurring themes: the woodworm, animals, the Biblical story of Noah, the clean and the unclean, and more. It's an exercise for the author in many different writing styles, and he pulls each off beautifully. Love this book!
Journal Entry 3 by glade1 at Cone Health Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, North Carolina USA on Tuesday, January 16, 2018
glade1 at Cone Health Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, North Carolina USA on Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Released 6 yrs ago (1/16/2018 UTC) at Cone Health Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, North Carolina USA
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