Arthur & George
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Arthur & George is a masterful novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race. Most of all, it's a profound and witty meditation on the fateful differences between what we believe, what we know and what we can prove.
Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late ninteenth-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.
About this Author
JULIAN BARNES is the author of numerous books, for which he has received the Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Prix Médicis and Prix Femina. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur, and in 2021 the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London.
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 448
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2006-10-10
Reviews
FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK
"It may be Barnes's best novel to date. High praise, I know, but Arthur & George really is that good." --The Vancouver Sun
"From the first paragraph . . . we know ourselves to be in the hands of a major novelist and are borne forward by a compelling narrative . . . This novel is Barnes at his best." --The Times (UK)
"An extraordinary novel. . . . First-rate. . . . A cracking good yarn. . . . A real-life mystery." --New York Times Book Review
"A brilliant book. . . . Every line of this novel reveals Barnes's intelligent focus and his meticulous research." --Calgary Herald
"A new book by Julian Barnes is something one always anticipates, and his admirers have much to celebrate with Arthur & George, perhaps his best effort yet. . . . One of the most entertaining novels that I have read in some time. . . . It will remind the reader of just how compelling pleasure reading a novel is." --Edmonton Journal
"A sublime reading experience. . . . This is an unforgettable novel." --The Vancouver Sun
"A superbly crafted novel, wryly observed, steadily compelling." --The Gazette
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