JULIAN BARNES - PULSE

THE SENSE OF AN ENDING, Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/26/sense-ending-julian-barnes-review1
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PULSE - Julian Barnes is still the master explorer of the intricacies of human relations -

Raymond Carver titled a collection of stories What We Talk About When We Talk About Love; the point was that his characters talked about anything but. In some ways, Pulse is Julian Barnes's very English improvisation of that idea. You don't always think of Barnes as an autobiographical writer, but it is hard to avoid that impulse here. This perfectly weighted collection feels like a companion volume to his erudite and profound meditation on death, Nothing to be Frightened of. Only eight months after that book appeared in March 2008, Barnes's wife of nearly 30 years, Pat Kavanagh, died after a short illness. This book, like all his others since they first met in 1978, is dedicated "for Pat"; it is concerned with aloneness, and its antithesis, love.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/02/julian-barnes-pulse-review

(...) Barnes is certainly the master of his own style: what preoccupies him here are the novelistic qualities of endurance, unity, cohesiveness, qualities for which the short story is made to act as an anti-metaphor.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/08/julian-barnes-pulse-rachel-cusk-review
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8230189/Pulse-by-Julian-Barnes-review.html

After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examines with his trademark wit and observant eye. (...)
http://www.julianbarnes.com/bib/pulse.html