Levels of Life: A Memoir

From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes an elegant triptych of history, fiction, and memoir--a "wise, funny, and devastating ... discourse on love and sorrow" (The New York Times Book Review).

In this "deeply stirring" book (The Boston Globe), Julian Barnes writes about ballooning and photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and tearing them apart; and enduring after the incomprehensible loss of a loved one. Powerfully rendered, exquisitely crafted in Barnes's erudite style, this searing work confirms the author as an unparalleled magus of the heart.

Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/01/2014
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780345806581


Review Citation(s):
People Weekly 08/31/2014 pg. 24

About the Author

JULIAN BARNES was born in Leicester and moved to London in 1946. He is the author of twenty books, and in 2011 won the Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending. He met Pat Kavanagh in 1978.

Pat Kavanagh was born in South Africa and moved to London in 1964. She worked in advertising and then, for forty years, as a literary agent. She married Julian Barnes in 1979, and died in 2008.