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Talking It Over is a novel by Julian Barnes published in 1991, it won the Prix Femina Étranger the following year. It concerns a love triangle in which each of the three people concerned (and occasionally others) take it in turns to tell the story from their perspective using first person narrative. Stuart and Oliver have been best friends ...
- Julian Barnes
- 1991
Jan 1, 2001 · Talking it Over is one of the best works of Julian Barnes. Told in 3 perspectives of the protagonists, I was baffled, perplexed and confused, as to where my alliances lie. Whose side I was rooting for?
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Oct 14, 1991 · The central story unfurls over a single event-choked year, begun by Wendy, who unlatches a closed adoption and springs on her family the boy her stuffy married sister, Violet, gave away 15 years earlier. (The sisters improbably kept David and Marilyn clueless with a phony study-abroad scheme.)
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About Talking It Over. The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending delivers “fiction at its best” (The New York Times Book Review) in an unforgettable novel about two best friends and the beautiful woman who comes between them.
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Oct 27, 1992 · Talking it Over is a very witty novel on a love-triangle story told by each character in first person to the reader. Barnes creates a human chorus with distinctive voices, and characters that feel real and almost alive due to his insight on the psychology of each one.
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- Julian Barnes
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[Julian Barnes discusses some of the situations in his latest novel, Talking It Over, and describes the main character, Oliver. He also talks about France's relationship with England and his work with the Oxford English Dictionary.]
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Jun 15, 2011 · Talking it Over is a very witty novel on a love-triangle story told by each character in first person to the reader. Barnes creates a human chorus with distinctive voices, and characters that feel real and almost alive due to his insight on the psychology of each one.
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