Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Sense of an Ending, "an elegant memoir and meditation" (The New York Times Book Review) that grapples with the most natural thing in the world: the fear of death.
A memoir on mortality as only Julian Barnes can write it, one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. If the fear of death is "the most rational thing in the world," how does one contend with it? An atheist at twenty and an agnostic at sixty, Barnes looks into the various arguments for, against, and with God, and at his own bloodline, which has become, following his parents' death, another realm of mystery. Deadly serious, masterfully playful, and surprisingly hilarious, Nothing to Be Frightened Of is a riveting display of how this supremely gifted writer goes about his business and a highly personal tour of the human condition and what might follow the final diagnosis.
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/06/2009
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.24h x 4.92w x 0.76d
ISBN13: 9780307389985
ISBN10: 0307389987
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Social Science | Death & Dying
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
A memoir on mortality as only Julian Barnes can write it, one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. If the fear of death is "the most rational thing in the world," how does one contend with it? An atheist at twenty and an agnostic at sixty, Barnes looks into the various arguments for, against, and with God, and at his own bloodline, which has become, following his parents' death, another realm of mystery. Deadly serious, masterfully playful, and surprisingly hilarious, Nothing to Be Frightened Of is a riveting display of how this supremely gifted writer goes about his business and a highly personal tour of the human condition and what might follow the final diagnosis.
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/06/2009
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.24h x 4.92w x 0.76d
ISBN13: 9780307389985
ISBN10: 0307389987
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Social Science | Death & Dying
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
About the Author
JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty-four books, for which he has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the David Cohen Prize for Literature, and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the French Prix MĂ©dicis and Prix Femina; the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. In 2017 he was awarded the LĂ©gion d'honneur. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London.