Love, etc (novel)
Author | Julian Barnes |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Publisher | Jonathan Cape (UK) Knopf (US) |
Publication date | 2000 (UK), 2001 (US) |
Media type | Print, Audio & eBook |
Pages | 249 |
ISBN | 0-224-03101-5 |
Preceded by | Talking it Over |
Love, etc is a novel by Julian Barnes published in 2000, although it is also the title of a French film based on his earlier novel Talking it Over.[1]
Plot[]
Love, etc was written some ten years after Talking it Over and is set ten years later. In the intervening period Stuart, the protagonist, has emigrated to America, remarried, opened a restaurant, got divorced and returned to England, where he has set up a successful organic food business. Meanwhile, Oliver and Gillian and their two daughters live in a small flat in north-east London, Oliver still seeks success as a writer supported by Gillian's picture restoration. Stuart appears to have forgiven Oliver for stealing his wife and offers him a job as a driver...
References[]
- ^ Showalter, Elaine (4 August 2000). "Careless talk costs wives". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
External links[]
- The Complete Review (containing links to reviews in The Guardian, The Observer and The New York Times and quotes from many others)
- Julian Barnes Website: Love, etc
Categories:
- Novels by Julian Barnes
- 2000 British novels
- Sequel novels
- Jonathan Cape books
- Novels with multiple narrators
- 2000s novel stubs