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Cross Channel is a collection of short stories by Julian Barnes, first published in 1996 by Jonathan Cape. [1] As the title suggests, all stories focus on the connection between England and France.
1 janv. 1996 · ‘Cross Channel’ is a short collection of short stories with a common theme of British-French relationships over time. The gently mocking, elegant prose is exactly what I would have expected from Barnes. However, I found all but ‘Dragons’ to be rather limp.
9 juil. 2022 · Cross Channel was Julian Barnes’s first book of short fiction. It collects 10 stories about the English experience of France over 350 years, from the 17th to the early 21st century. Five of these tales were first published in the New Yorker and Granta.
Cross Channel. No one has a better perspective to see things from both sides of the Channel than Julian Barnes. In these exquisitely crafted stories, which span several centuries, he takes as his central theme the British in France: from the last days of a reclusive English composer and the beef-consuming 'navvies' labouring on the Paris-Rouen ...
The ten stories that make up Cross Channel introduce us to a plethora of intriguing, original, and sometimes ill-fated characters. Elegantly conceived and seductively written, Cross Channel is further evidence of Barnes’s wizardry.
Mr. Julian Barnes wrote his History of the world in 10 and one half chapters. In this collection of short stories he decided to be a bit more conventional, and confine his 10 stories to only 10 chapters.
9 avr. 1996 · Published in 1996, CROSS CHANNEL was Julian Barnes's first collection of short stories. And it reveals him to be a master of the form. With many books of short stories, the contents all come from the same mold.
