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Elizabeth Finch

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Elizabeth Finch

SKU: 9781787333932 Category: Product ID: 387300

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Title: Elizabeth Finch
Author: BARNES JULIAN
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 12/04/2022
Imprint: JONATHAN CAPE
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active

A wise and heartfelt and powerful new novel from Julian Barnes – a book that is a balm for our times with an extraordinary woman at its heart We’d like to introduce you to Elizabeth Finch. We invite you to take her course in Culture and Civilisation. Her ideas are not to everyone’s taste. But she will change the way you see the world. ‘The task of the present is to correct our understanding of the past. And that task becomes the more urgent when the past cannot be corrected.’ Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration – always rigorous, always thoughtful. With careful empathy, she guided her students to develop meaningful ideas and to discover their centres of seriousness. As a former student unpacks her notebooks and remembers her uniquely inquisitive mind, her passion for reason resonates through the years. Her ideas unlock the philosophies of the past, and explore key events that show us how to make sense of our lives today. And underpinning them all is the story of J – Julian the Apostate, her historical soulmate and fellow challenger to the institutional and monotheistic thinking that has always threatened to divide us. This is more than a novel. It’s a loving tribute to philosophy, a careful evaluation of history, an invitation to think for ourselves. It’s a moment to reflect and to gently explore our own theories and assumptions. It is truly a balm for our times.

Review: A singular tale. — Stephanie Cross * Daily Mail, *Books to Look Out For 2022* *

Author Biography: Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and The Man in the Red Coat, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Duff Cooper Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Legion d’honneur.

ISBN: 9781787333932
Pages: 160