England, England
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  • Published: 1 July 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099526544
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $22.99

England, England

  • Julian Barnes
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1 Jul 2008
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1 Jul 2010
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'A brilliant piece of satire' (Observer) from Booker prize-winning author Julian Barnes

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction

As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Big Ben to Stonehenge, from Manchester United to the white cliffs of Dover. The project is monstrous, risky, and vastly successful. In fact, it gradually begins to rival 'Old' England and even threatens to supersede it...

One of Barnes's finest and funniest novels, England, England calls into question the idea of replicas, truth vs fiction, reality vs art, nationhood, myth-making, and self-exploration.

'A brilliant, Swiftian fantasy' The Economist
  • Published: 1 July 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099526544
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for England, England

The sharpest-tasting novel about the modern littleness of England.

John Sutherland, The Times

A brilliant, Swiftian fantasy

The Economist

There is no more intelligent writer on the literary scene. In this novel, he is also moving. He has written nothing more poignant and enticing

John Carey, Sunday Times

Not only a very funny satire about England and the world... He has also skilfully dissected the discomforting ways in which we have all grown to accept, and even depend on, illusion

Wall Street Journal

Runs at glorious full tilt...delightful stuff

Independent

Few writers think and talk so beguiling

Zoë Heller, Independent on Sunday
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