Before She Met Me, Julian Barnes
Before She Met Me, Julian Barnes
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Before She Met Me

Author: Julian Barnes

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 5 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/10/2020


Synopsis

At the start of this fiendishly comic and suspenseful novel, a mild-mannered English academic chuckles as he
watches his wife commit adultery. The action takes place before she met him. But lines between film and reality, past
and present become terrifyingly blurred in this sad and funny tour de force from the author of Flaubert’s Parrot.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on September 01, 2015

The moral of this book, which applies mostly to women, is that you should not get married to someone who, if they discover by accident that you had an earlier career as a porn actress which you had felt, quite understandably, that you didn't need to mention, will go very quietly mad, so quietly that......more

Goodreads review by W.D. on October 15, 2022

Subjectively speaking, while this reads like an objective 4* book, one which is more taut and relentlessly single-minded than Julian Barnes's admittedly more-endearing (in its first half anyway) debut, it was nevertheless a 1* read for me--just as Othello is my least favourite of Shakespeare's maste......more

Goodreads review by foteini_dl on February 25, 2017

[2.5*,μάλλον] Πρόκειται για ένα βιβλίο με κάποια απ’ τα καλά στοιχεία του Barnes να κάνουν την εμφάνισή τους: χιούμορ (πιστεύω στα ελληνικά «χάνεται» κάπως στη μετάφραση,αλλά υπάρχουν στιγμές που καταλαβαίνεις ότι κάποιο αστείο υπάρχει στην αγγλική έκδοση),γραφή που ρέει με αποτέλεσμα το βιβλίο να δι......more