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Metroland is an English novel written by Julian Barnes and published in 1980, the author's first book. Overview. Metroland is a first person account of Christopher Lloyd and his experiences growing up in the suburbs of London (so-called Metro-land ), his brief life in Paris as a graduate student and the early years of his subsequent marriage.
Metroland was Julian Barnes's first novel. It took between 7-8 years to write and draws heavily on his personal experiences growing up in the suburbs of London. Written in three parts, the first section focuses on the friendship of Christopher and Toni and their childhood disgust for the bourgeoisie.
1 de mar. de 1980 · Julian Barnes' first novel, Metroland, is a coming-of-age story that follows Christoper in three parts from his teenage years to adulthood. The first chapter accounts for the friendship of Christoper and Tony, who grew up in the suburbs of London; they share the same ideas, devotion to art and disgust for "ordinary people".
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3 de mai. de 1987 · ''Metroland'' is what critics loosely call a coming of age story. But it is, finally, a meditation on the meaning of fidelity within the context of marriage in an age of crushing...
From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of A Sense of an Ending comes a comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s that is “wonderfully fresh, crackling with nostalgic irreverence” (Vogue).
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27 de out. de 1992 · Bibliographic information. From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of A Sense of an Ending comes a comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s that is “wonderfully...
Longing for real life to begin, we follow Christopher to Paris in time for les evenements of 1968, only for him to miss it all in a haze of sex, French theatre and first...
