The Lemon Table - Julian Barnes
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Literature
The characters in The Lemon Table are facing the ends of their livessome with bitter regret, others with resignation, and others still with defiant rage. Their circumstances are just as varied as their responses. In 19th-century Sweden, three brief conversations provide the basis for a lifetime of longing. In todays England, a retired army major heads into the city for his regimental dinnerand his annual appointment with a professional lady named Babs. Somewhere nearby, a devoted wife calms (or perhaps torments) her ailing husband by reading him recipes., In stories brimming with life and our desire to hang on to it one way or another, Barnes proves himself by turns wise, funny, clever, and profounda writer of astonishing powers of empathy and invention., The stories included are:, 01. A Short History of Hairdressing 02. The Story of Mats Israelson 03. The Things You Know 04. Hygiene 05. The Revival 06. Vigilance 07. Bark 08. Knowing French 09. Appetite 10. The Fruit Cage 11. The Silen
