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Pulse

By: Julian Barnes
Narrated by: David Rintoul
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Publisher's summary

The brilliant new collection of short stories from Man Booker Prize-winning author Julian Barnes.

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. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on by success and loss, by new beginnings and endings.

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.

©2010 Julian Barnes (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

“Barnes has proved himself a virtuoso of fictional versatility” ( Sunday Times)
“The clean, acidic accuracy of Barnes’s writing is supremely enjoyable” ( Sunday Telegraph)

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