Love, etc. (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Julian Barnes
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The present
- Setting: London, France, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Gillian Russell, Oliver Russell, Stuart Hughes, Mme Wyatt
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, France or French people, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Marriage, England or English people, Adultery, London, Middle age
- Locales: France, United States, London, England
Love, etc., Julian Barnes’s ninth novel, is a sequel to Talking It Over, published in 1991. The first novel explored the variations and transformations of a triangular relationship involving three bright professionals in their early thirties. Stuart Hughes was a solid, well-meaning but reticent and stodgy banker who married Gillian, a reserved, sensible restorer of paintings. His best friend was Oliver Russell, a public school English teacher fired for having forced himself on one or more of his female students.
Soon after Stuart and Gillian’s marriage, the...
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