LEVELS OF LIFE

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed.In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives u s Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer/ he gives us Colonel Fred Burnaby, reluctant adorer of the extravagant Sarah Bernhardt/ then, finally, he gives us the story of his own grief, unflinchingly observed.This is a book of intense honesty and insi ght/ it is at once a celebration of love and a profound examination of sorrow.