One of Barnes finest and funniest novels, England, England calls into question the idea of replicas, truth vs fiction, reality vs art, nationhood, myth-making and self-exploration. The quality and lack of chapter divisions are the real problems that made really took away from the experience of this audiobook. In fact, it gradually begins to rival Old England and even threatens to supersede it. The use of voices for different characters is okay, and the tone the performer uses is alright. The recording itself is poor quality and a little painful with headphones. In the audiobook, I'm on Chapter Six, but in the actual book, I'm on Chapter Two. He has won both the Prix Médicis and the Prix Fémina, and in 1988 was made a Chevalier de lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres. The chapters it's divided into are different from the book, so that's useless. Born in Leicester in 1946, Julian Barnes is the author of nine novels, a book of stories, and a collection of essays. It makes this book really quite useless for a student-which I am-who needs to read a certain number of chapters by a certain date. BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST From the internationally acclaimed bestselling author The Sense of an Ending comes a 'wickedly funny novel (The New York Times) about an idyllic land of make-believe in England that gets horribly and hilariously out of hand. The performer does not pause when the chapter is over. This audio recorded, though, is pretty bad. It's painfully literary in a lot of ways-"progressive" male author "explores" female sexuality with a female main character who likes sex, the narrative uses "fuck" a lot, etc. It's interesting and poignant, a little weird, but it has some human universals that anyone can connect to.
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