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Metroland
(Paperback, 1992)
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Author: Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes's first novel, published in 1980, is about a Francophile growing up in stifling Englis...
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Julian Barnes's first novel, published in 1980, is about a Francophile growing up in stifling English suburbia. He grows up to be a young man whose main ambition, to be outrageous, evolves into a competition with a friend, in which they bet money on who can be more shocking.
| Size | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"The first section...is an exercise in the post-Portnoy school of adolescent self-revelation, the 'Look what a shit I am' movement of which Martin Amis has hitherto been the outstanding practitioner. Barnes handles it cleverly enough, but..in the second section...he suddenly goes much deeper. The account of a boy's emergence from the self-absorption of adolescence is grippingly and sensitively done...If all first works of fiction were as thoughtful, as subtle, as well-constructed and as funny as 'Metroland' there would be no more talk of the death of the novel."
New Statesman - Nicholas Shrimpton (03/28/1980)
"...he seems to respect the foibles and poses of adolescence and young manhood as things to be cherished and valued in their own right rather than merely being excuses for a few easy laughs; a fact which makes 'Metroland' a rare and unusual first novel."
London Magazine - William Boyd
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