3.5
Levels of Life
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From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes an elegant triptych of history, fiction, and memoir—a "wise, funny, and devastating ... discourse on love and sorrow" (The New York Times Book Review).
In this “deeply stirring” book (The Boston Globe), Julian Barnes writes about ballooning and photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and tearing them apart; and enduring after the incomprehensible loss of a loved one. Powerfully rendered, exquisitely crafted in Barnes’s erudite style, this searing work confirms the author as an unparalleled magus of the heart.
In this “deeply stirring” book (The Boston Globe), Julian Barnes writes about ballooning and photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and tearing them apart; and enduring after the incomprehensible loss of a loved one. Powerfully rendered, exquisitely crafted in Barnes’s erudite style, this searing work confirms the author as an unparalleled magus of the heart.
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3.5
“What a beautiful and sad way to commemorate your love. I didn't need the metaphor and was quite confused in the beginning, but I can see why the author chose to include it.”
“Should’ve just made it a 50 pages essay about grief rather than talking about hot-air balloons for 100 pages”
“É um livro curto, mas muito bonito, poético e profundo. Fala sobre perda, luto, dor. O livro é dividido em três partes e cria uma ficção em cima de histórias reais. Na primeira parte (The Sin of Height), você sobe nas alturas através de um balão com o inventor e fotógrafo Gaspard-Félix Tournachon. Na segunda parte (On the Level), você desce e conhece a relação entre o coronel e balonista Fred Barnaby e a atriz francesa Sarah Bernhardt. Na terceira parte (The Loss of Depth), você perde a profundidade e o próprio autor usa as duas primeiras partes para descrever o processo pessoal de luto da perda de sua esposa. Um lindo, profundo e triste livro com muita sensibilidade.”
About Julian Barnes
JULIAN BARNES was born in Leicester and moved to London in 1946. He is the author of twenty books, and in 2011 won the Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending. He met Pat Kavanagh in 1978.
Pat Kavanagh was born in South Africa and moved to London in 1964. She worked in advertising and then, for forty years, as a literary agent. She married Julian Barnes in 1979, and died in 2008.
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