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Starred Review on November 1, 2025 | Fiction
Booker Prize winner Barnes (Elizabeth Finch) explores memory, identity, and aging in this elegiacal and witty metafictional novella about a fictional Booker Prize winner named Julian Barnes who is completing his final novel. That novel's main plot is the bifurcated romantic relationship of two university friends, Stephen and Jean, whom Barnes introduced at school before facilitating their reunion 40 years later; now,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More



