Dimensions
130 x 197 x 25mm
Eighteen witty and brilliant essays on France from Julian Barnes.
Julian Barnes's long and passionate relationship with France began more than forty years ago. As sceptical observer on family motoring holidays, assistant in a school in Brittany, student of the language and literature, author of 'Flaubert's Parrot' and 'Cross Channel', he has criss-crossed the country and its culture.
The essays collected here, written over a twenty-year period, attest to his clear-eyed appreciation of the Land Without Brussels Sprouts. He ranges widely, from landscape to literature, food to Flaubert, film and song to the Tour de France. His humour, timing and intelligence never falter.
