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Man Booker Prize-winning author Julian Barnes' debut novel.
The adolescent Christopher and his soul mate Toni had sneered at the stifling ennui of Metroland, their cosy patch of suburbia on the Metropolitan line. They had longed for Life to beginâmeaning Sex and Freedomâto travel and choose their own clothes.
Then Chris, at thirty, starts to settle comfortably into bourgeois contentment himself. Luckily, Toni is still around to challenge such backsliding.
About: Traces the life of Julian Barnes from a school child to his life in Paris where he met his first love.
About: Growing up in the sixties, Chris and Toni, face the sexual longings of adolescence, find adulthood in Paris, and return home to join adult society
About: The adolescent Christopher and his soulmate Toni had sneer at the stifling ennui of Metroland, their cosy patch of suburbia on the Metropolitan line.
About: Smirking and cynical adolescents who loafed around London, Christopher and Toni transform into adults of quite a different sort
About: Growing up in the sixties, Chris and Toni, face the sexual longings of adolescence, find adulthood in Paris, and return home to join adult society.
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