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Staring At The Sun

by Julian Barnes · 1986

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Charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginnings as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. This novel enables readers to follow her experience in marriage, her questioning of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China.

Genre
literary fictionscience fiction
Setting
1980sEnglandBritish
Audience
adult
Length
short · 195 pages

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