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Love, Etc was written some ten years after Talking It Over and is set ten years later. In the intervening period Stuart, the protagonist, has emigrated to America, remarried, opened a restaurant, got divorced and returned to England, where he has set up a successful organic food business.
Julian is a 1964 novel by Gore Vidal, a work of historical fiction written primarily in the first person dealing with the life of the Roman emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus (known to Christians as Julian the Apostate), who reigned briefly from 361 to 363 A.D.
The novel begins with the Madden sisters and their childhood friend in Clevedon. After various travails, the adult Alice and Virginia Madden move to London and renew their friendship with Rhoda, an unmarried bluestocking. She is living with the also unmarried Mary Barfoot, and together they run an establishment teaching secretarial skills to ...
Tim Martin in The Telegraph writes, "the tone of this collection is darker than much of Barnes’s other work", "Julian Barnes shows his usual sharp dissection of the national character, but is also a deeply felt portrayal of grief", he concludes that this is a "quietly remarkable, elegant book".
The result is that hardly anyone in these novels — brilliant novels, swimming with lively conceits — has that most necessary fictional quality, a life of their own" and that "A History is another of these newfangled romps, a series of neat, artfully stage-managed stories which combine to create a bizarre, off-centre view of world history ...
Julie Pottinger (née Cotler; born January 12, 1970), better known by her pen name, Julia Quinn, is an American author of historical romance fiction. [1] Her novels have been translated into 41 languages and have appeared on The New York Times Bestseller List 19 times. [2]
Actors Saoirse Ronan and Jack Lowden generally keep their relationship on the private side, but have started to offer fans a look at their love via social media. News of Ronan and Lowden’s ...
In Madden's future history, much of the world has come to be dominated by the Jesuits. In the early 19th century, a Jesuit became Pope Paul IX; [ n 2 ] he seized temporal control over most of Italy. The eighteenth century had been one of war between Spain, France, and the Holy Roman Empire , but weakened by conflict and mismanagement all three ...