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050	0	0	_aPR6052.A6657 _bZ46 2008
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100	1		_aBarnes, Julian
245	1	0	_aNothing to be frightened of _c/ Julian Barnes
250			_a1st American edition
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2008.
300			_a243 p. _c; 22 cm.
500			_a Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2008. "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
520			_aTwo years after the best-sellingArthur & George,Julian Barnes gives us a memoir on mortality that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. If the fear of death is the most rational thing in the world, how does one contend with it? An atheist at twenty, an agnostic at sixty, Barnes looks into the various arguments for and against andwithGod, and at the bloodline whose archivist, following his parents' death, he has become another realm of mystery, wherein a drawer of mementos and his own memories (not to mention those of his philosopher brother) often fail to connect. There are other ancestors, too: the writers most of them dead, and quite a few of them French who are his daily companions, supplemented by composers and theologians and scientists whose similar explorations are woven into this account with an exhilarating breadth of intellect and felicity of spirit. Deadly serious, masterfully playful, and surprisingly hilarious,Nothing to Be Frightened Ofis a riveting display of how this supremely gifted writer goes about his business and a highly personal tour of the human condition and what might follow the final diagnosis.
600	1	0	_aBarnes, Julian
650		4	_aAuthors, English _y-20th century _v--Biography
650		0	_aFear of death
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