Cross Channel (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Julian Barnes
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Culture, History, Language or languages, France or French people, Friendship, Writing, Great Britain, International relations
The ten works constituting Julian Barnes’s first collection of variously touching, provocative, and lighthearted short stories will inevitably reinforce in the reader a truth all but self-evident: that despite their relative geographical proximity and nearly a millennium of continual contact (not always under ideal circumstances), the French and English of the late twentieth century are only nominally closer to understanding one another and to sympathizing with each other’s foibles than they were in the days of William the Conqueror. While Barnes’s engaging volume directly traces...
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