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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Jean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes's wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary, but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom. And as Barnes--winner of the Man Booker Prize for <i>The Sense of an Ending</i>--follows her from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, he confronts readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalogue of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed). <p/> Elegant, funny and intellectually subversive, <i>Staring at the Sun </i>is Julian Barnes at his most dazzlingly original. <p/> "Brilliant . . . a marvelous literary epiphany."--Carlos Fuentes, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/> "Barnes's literary energy and daring are nearly unparalleled."--<i>New Republic</i><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Jean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes's wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary, but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom. And as Barnes--author of The Porcupine and Talking It Over--follows her from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, he confronts readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalog of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed).<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Born in Leicester in 1946, Julian Barnes is the author of nine novels, a book of stories, and a collection of essays. He has won both the Prix Médicis and the Prix Fémina, and in 1988 was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London.

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