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Before She Met Me
Before She Met Me
Author: Julian Barnes
"A remarkably original and subtle novel." --Frank Kermode, New York Review of Books —       — Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 —    Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Until, that is, the day he discovers Ann's celluloid past as a mediocre film ac...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780099540076
ISBN-10: 009954007X
Publication Date: 10/1/2014
Pages: 192
Edition: 2000
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Publisher: Vintage Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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"Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his disagreeable wife Barbara for the more agreeable Ann, and is well pleased with the exchange. He can hardly believe his luck, and spends his time dwelling on her and listing what she is wearing in a notebook. This blissful state continues until the day he catches committing adultery on celluloid. Ann was, sometime before they married, a mediocre file actress. Soon he is pouncing on small clues, examining her books for inscriptions of bygone lovers and continually re-seeing the few bad movies she appeared in. It's not that he blames Ann for having a past before they met, but history matters to him...Funny, sad and faintly ominous...making jealousy tangible and dangerou" Harriet Waugh, Spectator


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