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Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 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 four works of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing to Be Frightened Of. He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime contribution to literature in 2011, and the Légion d'Honneur in 2017.Pulse is Barnes’s 17th book and is a masterclass in the shorter form.
- Elizabeth Day, Observer
Julian Barnes writes so exquisitely that every page of this collection contains literary pearls
Mail on Sunday
All the stories in <i>Pulse </i>have the absolute completeness and density of the very best short fiction
New Statesman
Masterclasses in the form, full of the sidelong wit and intelligence that make the writer one of our most consistently deft short-form stylists
Daily Telegraph
Barnes' stylish prose, eye for emotional detail and sense of absurdity never let him down... He suits the short story very well
Literary Review
The prose is crisp and elegant, light on its feet but resonant with pathos, and flecked with acute observations that never fail to strike a vivid chord with the reader.... It all makes for a diverse, entertaining collection, alternating between plangency and playfulness
- Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler
The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. A divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress; a widower relives a favourite holiday; two writers rehearse familiar arguments; a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches. And at a series of evenings at 'Phil & Joanna's', the topics of conversation range from the environment to the Britishness of marmalade, from toilet graffiti to smoking, as we witness the guests' lives in flux.
Ranging from the domestic to the extraordinary, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in winter, the stories in Pulse resonate and spark.