{"product_id":"9780679748205","title":"Staring at the Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003eJean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes’s wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary, but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom. And as Barnes—winner of the Man Booker Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Sense of an Ending\u003c\/i\u003e—follows her from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, he confronts readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalogue of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Elegant, funny and intellectually subversive, \u003ci\u003eStaring at the Sun \u003c\/i\u003eis Julian Barnes at his most dazzlingly original.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Brilliant . . . a marvelous literary epiphany.”—Carlos Fuentes, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Barnes’s literary energy and daring are nearly unparalleled.”—\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027317276912,"sku":"9780679748205","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679748205_p0.jpg?v=1763613984","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679748205","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}