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- 30 May, 7.05pm Channel 4
Jonathan Coe debates the future of the British novel with Julian Barnes and Kazuo Ishiguro.
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The Accidental »
The Closed Circle »
Cloud Atlas »
How We Are Hungry »
The Lemon Table
Never Let Me Go »
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Fear: A Cultural History »
The World Is Flat »
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The Lemon Table is a collection of acidly intelligent short stories about the meaning of love, sex and art as you grow old. The stories are artfully constructed – as letters to Barnes from a reader in an old people's home, for instance, or as descriptions of three visits to the hairdresser, separated by decades.
As in Flaubert's Parrot, Barnes writes real-life artists into his fiction: here we get composer Sibelius in bitter old age, and Barnes also plays detective with the love letters of Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev.
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