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Arthur & George

Julian Barnes

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English
Vintage
01 March 2006
Now a major TV series starring Martin Clunes, Arsher Ali and Art Malik

Now a major TV series starring Martin Clunes, Arsher Ali and Art Malik

From the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011, an extraordinary true-life tale about a long-forgotten mystery...

Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain- Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages.

This is a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race. Most of all it is a profound and moving meditation on the fateful differences between what we believe, what we know and what we can prove.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 38mm
Weight:   340g
ISBN:   9780099492733
ISBN 10:   0099492733
Pages:   512
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Julian Barnes is the author of eleven novels, including The Sense of an Ending, Metroland, Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 10� Chapters and Arthur & George; three books of short stories, Cross Channel, The Lemon Table and Pulse; and also three collections of journalism, Letters from London, Something to Declare, and The Pedant in the Kitchen. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Medicis (for Flaubert's Parrot) and the Prix Femina (for Talking it Over). He was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2004, the David Cohen Prize for Literature and the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. He lives in London.

Reviews for Arthur & George

Extraordinary.... First rate.... A cracking good yarn. <br>- The New York Times Book Review <br> An absorbing fictional re-creation of a real-life detective story. . . . A finely evocative historical novel as well as a morally and psychologically astute glimpse into the worlds of two men. <br>- Los Angeles Times Book Review <br> Masterly throughout. . . . The author keeps the reader on edge. <br> - The Washington Post Book World <br> Deeply satisfying. . . . From the first chapter, Barnes has us in his thrall. - San Francisco Chronicle <br> A page-turner.... Arthur & George is by far Mr. Barnes's most pressurized novel to date. - The Wall Street Journal <br> Utterly absorbing, beautifully crafted.... Rich and immensely readable.... A stream of flawless, driving sentences.... A great novel. - O, The Oprah Magazine <br> A marvelous book. - Entertainment Weekly, A <br> His most engrossing novel ever. - Jay McInerney, The New York Observer


  • Short-listed for British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2006
  • Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007
  • Shortlisted for British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2006.
  • Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007.

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