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Description: Talking It Over : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9780099540137 : 0099540134 : 29 Jun 2011 : From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a novel of profound insight and comic flare. Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women;. The Book Depository Talking It Over by Julian Barnes - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780099540137
MPN: 0099540134
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Author: Wendy Knipe
Rating: 5
Review: Julian Barnes hits the spot again. An excellent read.
Author: Hebridean exile
Rating: 2
Review: This is the story of a love triangle - one woman and two men in love with her - told in turn by these three characters, with occasional contributions from others. So the author has set himself the challenging task of differentiating the three voices while making them all convincing. His success is mixed. The voice of Oliver is most successfully done - highly distinctive, flamboyantly imaginative, supercilious and pretentious, though very soon as annoying to the reader as to the other characters, and eventually tedious. I doubt if I was alone in finding myself skim-reading his contributions by the end. The other voices were less convincing, with both Stuart and Gillian sounding more like literary novelists than the boring banker and reserved picture restorer they were meant to be. The story is rather predictable - at least until the end, where Gillian solves the problem of two men in her life with a scheme that Bertie Wooster, let alone Jeeves, might have found too hare-brained. And the novel ends abruptly without our learning how successful or otherwise it has been. Whether the author always had a sequel in mind, or whether he came to feel the ending was unsatisfying, I don't know, but at any rate a sequel (Love, etc) has appeared. I have yet to read it.
