# Staring at the Sun

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- Book: [Staring at the Sun](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-barnes/staring-at-the-sun) ([Staring at the Sun.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-barnes/staring-at-the-sun.md))
- Authors: [Julian Barnes](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-barnes)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7974-820-5
- Pages: 208
- Published: 1993-09-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending traces the life of a seemingly ordinary woman with an extraordinary disdain for wisdom in this “marvelous literary epiphany”...