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050	0	0	_aPR6052.A6657 _bE54 1999
082	0	0	_aFIC BAR
100	1		_aBarnes, Julian
245	1	0	_aEngland, England _c/ Julian Barnes
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _b: Distributed by Random House _c, 1999.
300			_a275 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aFrom 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.
650		0	_aNational characteristics, English _v--Fiction
650		0	_aTourism _z--England _v--Fiction
650		0	_aAmusement parks _v--Fiction
651		0	_aIsle of Wight (England) _v--Fiction
655		7	_aAdventure stories
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