Talking It Over
Book formats
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Paperback No offers
Book short specifications
- Author
- Julian Barnes
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Language
- english
- Release date
- August 6, 2009
- ISBN
- 978-0-09-954013-7
- GTIN
- 9780099540137
- Weight, g
- 250
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a novel of profound insight and comic flare.
Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart's best friend Oliver is his complete opposite — a language teacher who 'talks like a dictionary', brash and feckless. Soon Stuart and Gillian are married, but it is not long before a tentative friendship between the three evolves into something far different.
Talking it Over is a brilliant and intimate account of love's vicissitudes. It begins as a comedy of errors, then slowly darkens and deepens, drawing us compellingly into the quagmires of the heart.