Descripción
Libro Metroland. Sinopsis libro, reseña libro. A special archive edition of Julian Barnes’s first novel, originally published in 1980.
Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at world as you find it. In between training as flâneurs and the grind of school, they cast a cynical eye over their various dislikes: parents with their lives of spotless emptiness, Third Division (North) football teams, God, commuters and girls, and the inhabitants
of Metroland: the strip of suburban
dormitory Christopher calls home.
Longing for real life to begin, Christopher makes for Paris in time for les événements of 1968, only to miss it all in a haze of sex, French theatre and first love. And before long he finds himself drawn inevitably back to Metroland and the very life he was trying to escape….
This special edition contains unseen archive material including letters from early fans such as Philip Larkin and Dodie Smith, contemporary reviews, a deleted scene from the original manuscript as well as an introduction from the author. Libro Metroland.
Oswaldo –
Descubrí por primera vez a Julian Barnes a principios del año pasado y, sí, es bastante grande. Sus novelas irradian rayos a medida que se leen magistralmente, se exploran radicalmente todos los ángulos, incluso las historias cortas pequeñas o hipotéticas evocan la intensidad de Faulkner, Waugh o Woolf.
En este tenemos otro retrato lleno de angustia adolescente. Las oraciones en cualquier cosa de Barnes toman un tiempo para hervir a fuego lento … no es hasta que terminas un párrafo completo que el lector perspicaz se detiene, mira el borde superior de la página con algo así como desdén en su rostro, luego dice «¡Ajá!» . En el momento en que tiene éxito, su vida cambia para siempre.