# The Lemon Table

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- Book: [The Lemon Table](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-barnes/the-lemon-table) ([The Lemon Table.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-barnes/the-lemon-table.md))
- Authors: [Julian Barnes](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-barnes)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9955-499-8
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2014-06-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts; from the woman who reads elaborate recipes to her sick husband as a substitute for sex, to the woman 'incarcerated' in an old people's home beginning a correspondence with an author that enriches both their lives - all Barnes' characters, in their different ways, square up to death and rage against the dying light.