England, England
Barnes, Julian
England, England / Julian Barnes - New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House , 1999. - 275 p. ; 22 cm.
From a writer acclaimed by everyone from Graham Greene to John Fowles to John Irving, a new novel, short-listed for the Booker Prize, whichThe Sunday Timesof London calls "both funny and serious, a double-act that English novels rarely manage . . . A commanding imaginative achievement." Picture an England where all the pubs are quaint, the Royals behave themselves (more or less), and the cliffs of Dover actually are white. Now imagine that the principal national treasures--from Stonehenge to Buckingham Palace--are grouped together on the Isle of Wight. This is precisely the vision that Sir Jack Pitman seeks to realize: a "destination" where tourists can find replicas of Big Ben, Wembley Stadium, the National Gallery, Princess Di's grave, and even Harrods (conveniently located inside the Tower of London), and visit them all in the course of a weekend. As this land of make-believe takes on its own comic and horrible reality, Barnes delights us with a novel that is at once a philosophical inquiry, a burst of mischief, a hilarious romp, and a moving elegy about authenticity and nationality.
9780375405822
98046170
National characteristics, English----Fiction
Tourism----England----Fiction
Amusement parks----Fiction
Isle of Wight (England)----Fiction
Adventure stories
PR6052.A6657 / E54 1999
FIC BAR
England, England / Julian Barnes - New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House , 1999. - 275 p. ; 22 cm.
From a writer acclaimed by everyone from Graham Greene to John Fowles to John Irving, a new novel, short-listed for the Booker Prize, whichThe Sunday Timesof London calls "both funny and serious, a double-act that English novels rarely manage . . . A commanding imaginative achievement." Picture an England where all the pubs are quaint, the Royals behave themselves (more or less), and the cliffs of Dover actually are white. Now imagine that the principal national treasures--from Stonehenge to Buckingham Palace--are grouped together on the Isle of Wight. This is precisely the vision that Sir Jack Pitman seeks to realize: a "destination" where tourists can find replicas of Big Ben, Wembley Stadium, the National Gallery, Princess Di's grave, and even Harrods (conveniently located inside the Tower of London), and visit them all in the course of a weekend. As this land of make-believe takes on its own comic and horrible reality, Barnes delights us with a novel that is at once a philosophical inquiry, a burst of mischief, a hilarious romp, and a moving elegy about authenticity and nationality.
9780375405822
98046170
National characteristics, English----Fiction
Tourism----England----Fiction
Amusement parks----Fiction
Isle of Wight (England)----Fiction
Adventure stories
PR6052.A6657 / E54 1999
FIC BAR
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