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Nothing To Be Frightened Of By Julian Barnes

Posted at 6:48PM Wednesday 12 Mar 2008

Julian Barnes is 62, which is perhaps not quite old enough to take death seriously. There is certainly nothing to be frightened of in this book - an elegant, ludic, urbane meditation on death, which manages to dance nimbly round its subject without ever engaging it in mortal combat.

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