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Title	:	Pulse
Author	:	Julian Barnes
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 228 pages
Published	:	January 6th 2011 by Jonathan Cape (first published January 1st 2011)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. European Literature. British Literature

Pulse

Julian Barnes

Hardcover | Pages: 228 pages

Rating: 3.63 | 2359 Users | 268 Reviews

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After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examines with his trademark wit and observant eye.

From an imperial capital in the eighteenth century to Garibaldi's adventures in the nineteenth, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in our time, he finds the "stages, transitions, arguments" that define us. A newly divorced real estate agent can't resist invading his reticent girlfriend's privacy, but the information he finds reveals only his callously shallow curiosity. A couple come together through an illicit cigarette and a song shared over the din of a Chinese restaurant. A widower revisiting the Scottish island he'd treasured with his wife learns how difficult it is to purge oneself of grief. And throughout, friends gather regularly at dinner parties and perfect the art of cerebral, sometimes bawdy banter about the world passing before them.

Whether domestic or extraordinary, each story pulses with the resonance, spark, and poignant humor for which Barnes is justly heralded.

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Original Title:	Pulse
ISBN:	0224091085 (ISBN13: 9780224091084)
Edition Language:	English

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Julian Barnes plays the dichotomist in these stories, cleaving them into a One and a Two. It's a clean cut because the two parts do not seem related to me, not by theme and purpose, and certainly not by reader appreciation.One holds nine stories. Only one, Sleeping with John Updike, impressed; although, candidly, maybe I just liked the title. In these stories, Barnes is insufferably British. Five of the stories are interspersed, a continuation of a dialogue that six or so people (couples) have

I'm a big Julian Barnes fan, and I love short stories. The stories in this collection were, for me, mixed. The book is divided into two sections, and I found all of the work in section two wonderful. Barnes sets some of these stories in the past, some in the present, and the title story, about the death of (presumably) his mother and his father's illness, was fantastic. The work in part one was mixed. There were four stories that focused on two couples, and in each story, these couples were

A collection that entails all that I both love and loathe about Barnes. Some stories are very twee, and the Phil & Joanna all-dialogue dinner table stories I eventually gave up on. But Barnes relationship themed stories are wonderful. Trespass was a particular favourite, and East Wind and Gardeners World are quite beautiful.The title story Pulse is a truly fabulous novelette. Its exploratory style reflects Barnes at his best.

Julian Barnes is great company: bright, perceptive, gently biting, his fine mind looks at many differnt aspects of every day's contemporary life. He shares his inner thoughts without pretention nor heaviness. His description are right on the button: evocative, spiced with his brand of understated English humor as an undercurrent. Just delicious and wonderfully pertinent.I prefered the second part of his set of stories, but, as it is in life with good and smart friends you love: you enjoy their

4.25 stars. The beautiful and powerful short stories in this delicious and richly flavoured collection taste like sublime dark chocolates.

Not the most consistent volume of short stories I have ever read - several of these were interesting ideas underdeveloped, description without much substance, or (as with a recurring theme of dnner party conversations in the first half of the collection) felt like filler. However, the quality of Julian Barnes' writing cannot be denied, and there were two or three particularly interesting tales within. I particularly enjoyed a couple where the author gets to the core of human feeling and sad

I beg to differ from the opinions on the review pages of the English press, the kinds of things I guess one can predict about such a solid figure in the literary department. 'Literary pearls' not. 'The very best short fiction'. I don't think so. 'Masterclasses in the form'. Nup.This collection is plain disappointing compared with as a fine modern exponent of the short story as, say, Michael Chabon. The observations on life are neither here nor there and delivered without either the wit or the