Description
Book SynopsisJulian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including
The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and
Sunday Times bestsellers
The Noise of Time and
The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including the
Sunday Times number one bestseller
Levels of Life and
Nothing To Be Frightened Of, which won the 2021 Yasnaya Polyana Prize in Russia. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.
Trade ReviewPulse is Barnes’s 17th book and is a masterclass in the shorter form. -- Elizabeth Day * Observer *
Julian Barnes writes so exquisitely that every page of this collection contains literary pearls * Mail on Sunday *
All the stories in
Pulse have the absolute completeness and density of the very best short fiction * New Statesman *
Masterclasses in the form, full of the sidelong wit and intelligence that make the writer one of our most consistently deft short-form stylists * Daily Telegraph *
Barnes' stylish prose, eye for emotional detail and sense of absurdity never let him down... He suits the short story very well * Literary Review *
