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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JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty-four 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, the Prix Médicis and Prix Femina in France, and the Jerusalem Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London. View titles by Julian Barnes

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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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© Marzena Pogorzaly
JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty-four 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, the Prix Médicis and Prix Femina in France, and the Jerusalem Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London. View titles by Julian Barnes

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