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    Before She Met Me

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    Author Julian Barnes
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    Knopf | Vintage
    On sale Oct 27, 1992 | 192 Pages | 9780679736097
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    Barnes's novel about a mild-mannered historian, Graham Hendrick, who becomes obsessed with his wife's appearance from her earlier years in a low-budget film (which Graham considers "adultery") is a tautly plotted and fiendishly suspenseful application of the uncertainty principle to the domain of Eros.

    "Few will be able to resist its easy humor and almost insidious readability."--The New York Times Book Review
      
    © Alan Edwards
    JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty-five previous books, for which he has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Prix Médicis and Prix Femina. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur, and in 2021 the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London. View titles by Julian Barnes
    “An intelligent and addictive entertainment.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “Excellent … A remarkably original and subtle book.” —The New York Review of Books

    "Julian Barnes [is] one of today's most rewarding writers." —Chicago Tribune

    "[Barnes] is not merely a dazzling entertainer ... he is a no-nonsense moralist as well, and is as dexterous with the darker elements of betrayal and pain as with the farcical mechanics of love and clashing temperaments." —The New Yorker

    "Funny, sad, faintly ominous…making jealousy tangible and dangerous." —Spectator

    "Concise and witty about psychology, ideas and love, in all its many forms" —The Times

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    Barnes's novel about a mild-mannered historian, Graham Hendrick, who becomes obsessed with his wife's appearance from her earlier years in a low-budget film (which Graham considers "adultery") is a tautly plotted and fiendishly suspenseful application of the uncertainty principle to the domain of Eros.

    "Few will be able to resist its easy humor and almost insidious readability."--The New York Times Book Review
      

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    © Alan Edwards
    JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty-five previous books, for which he has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Prix Médicis and Prix Femina. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur, and in 2021 the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London. View titles by Julian Barnes

    Praise

    “An intelligent and addictive entertainment.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “Excellent … A remarkably original and subtle book.” —The New York Review of Books

    "Julian Barnes [is] one of today's most rewarding writers." —Chicago Tribune

    "[Barnes] is not merely a dazzling entertainer ... he is a no-nonsense moralist as well, and is as dexterous with the darker elements of betrayal and pain as with the farcical mechanics of love and clashing temperaments." —The New Yorker

    "Funny, sad, faintly ominous…making jealousy tangible and dangerous." —Spectator

    "Concise and witty about psychology, ideas and love, in all its many forms" —The Times

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