The new book from the Booker Prize-winning Julian Barnes, about looking back, facing the future, and coming to the end of life Departure(s) is a book about many things, A man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old A Jack Russell called Jimmy, famous for his good behaviour The mischievous nature of memory The aging body, and how it begins to fail Taking our chances, facing our fate How we find happiness in this life How a departure can also be an arrival And when it is time to say goodbye
Author
Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer of postmodernism in literature. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize - Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005), and won the prize for The Sense of an Ending (2011). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. Following an education at the City of London School and Merton College, Oxford, he worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary. Subsequently, he worked as a literary editor and film critic. He now writes full-time. His brother, Jonathan Barnes, is a philosopher specialized in Ancient Philosophy. He lived in London with his wife, the literary agent Pat Kavanagh, until her death on 20 October 2008.
