Sarah A Smith
Love, Marriage and Ethnic Ovens
Julian Barnes’s writing, with its carefully calibrated shifts of tone, gently mocking humour and focus on affairs of the heart, is perfectly suited to the short-story format. Although his third collection, Pulse, is less thematically structured than his previous work, there is a fluidity and playfulness to this varied body of stories which, if not always successful, is often very pleasing.
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