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Title
Pulse
Author Julian Barnes
Genre Literary Fiction, Short Stories
Format N/A

 

Book Description
Pulse is a collection of subtly powerful short stories that examine love, aging, regret, friendship, and the quiet shocks that shape ordinary lives. With emotional restraint and precision, Barnes captures moments of connection and loss, revealing how deeply felt experiences often emerge from the smallest turns of fate.

About Author

Julian Barnes is a British novelist, essayist, and critic widely regarded as one of the leading literary voices of his generation. Born in Leicester, England, in 1946, he studied Modern Languages at Magdalen College, Oxford, and worked as a journalist and literary editor before focusing on fiction.

Barnes is known for his intellectually rich and stylistically elegant novels, which often explore memory, love, truth, and the unreliability of narrative. His major works include Flaubert’s Parrot, Arthur & George, and The Sense of an Ending, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2011. Alongside his fiction, Barnes has written essays, criticism, and short stories, earning acclaim for his wit, philosophical depth, and precise prose.

  

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