Apr 4, 2013 · Julian Barnes writes about love and life and grief through the most delicate exploration of the "levels of life", from intoxicating heights to unbearable lows, with the radical intelligence and beating heart that inhabit all his books.

Levels of Life is a 2013 memoir by English author Julian Barnes, dedicated to his wife Pat Kavanagh, a literary agent who died in 2008. [1] The book comprises three essays: [1]

Sep 24, 2013 · LEVELS OF LIFE is the tale of Barnes' struggle to find the sense in staying alive after the death of Pat Kavanagh, his wife of 30 years. Barnes' personal experience of a significant ending is, of course, grossly more complicated than the literary endings he typically grapples with.

In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us 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.

Sep 20, 2013 · So it should come as no surprise that “Levels of Life,” a putative grief memoir about the loss of his wife, the literary agent Pat Kavanagh, is part history, part meditative...

Sep 26, 2013 · In his new memoir, Julian Barnes contemplates 19th century photography, the metaphorical exhilaration of ballooning and the sudden death of his beloved wife....

In this “deeply stirring” book (The Boston Globe), Julian Barnes writes about ballooning and photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and tearing them apart; and enduring after the incomprehensible loss of a loved one.

Sep 24, 2013 · Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. "You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed..."

Aug 20, 2014 · These two opening sentences announce the central theme of Levels of Life —a book about self-transcendence, love, and devastating loss.

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