I was captivated from the first page. I cannot remember when I enjoyed a first novel more

- Nina Bawden, Daily Telegraph

If all works of fiction were as thoughtful, as subtle, as well constructed, and as funny as <i>Metroland</i> there would be no more talk of the death of the novel

New Statesman

A rare and unusual first novel

- William Boyd, London Magazine

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A very funny, touching first novel. It has a hard comic edge to it that is logical and at the same time extremely diverting

Spectator

One would have to look very hard to find a wryer, more lovingly detailed account of intellectual and sexual innocence abroad

- Jay Parini, New York Times

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a magnificent portrait of youth and growing up.Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. In between training as flaneurs and the grind of school they cast a cynical eye over their various dislikes: parents with their lives of spotless emptiness, Third Division (North) football teams, God, commuters and girls, and the inhabitants of Metroland, the strip of suburban dormitory Christopher calls home. Longing for real life to begin, we follow Christopher to Paris in time for les evenements of 1968, only to miss it all in a haze of sex, French theatre and first love, leading him, to Toni's disappointment, back to Metroland.
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From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a magnificent portrait of youth and growing up.Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it.
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'I cannot remember when I enjoyed a first novel more' Daily Telegraph

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099540069
Publisert
2009-09-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
157 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
176

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing To Be Frightened Of, which won the 2021 Yasnaya Polyana Prize in Russia. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.