Exploring the archives of the Man Booker prize-winning novelist Julian Barnes - including notebooks, drafts, typescripts and publishing correspondence - this book is an extraordinary in-depth study of the creative practice of a major contemporary novelist.
In
Julian Barnes from the Margins
, Vanessa Guignery charts the genesis and publication history of all of Barnes's major novels, from his debut with
Metroland
, through
Flaubert's Parrot
and
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
to
The Sense of an Ending
.