Love, Etc | |
Author: | Julian Barnes |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Jonathan Cape (UK) Knopf (US) |
Release Date: | 2000 (UK), 2001 (US) |
Media Type: | Print, Audio & eBook |
Pages: | 249 |
Isbn: | 0-224-03101-5 |
Preceded By: | Talking it Over |
Love, Etc is a novel by Julian Barnes published in 2000, although it is also the title of a French film based on his earlier novel Talking It Over.[1]
Love, Etc was written some ten years after Talking It Over and is set ten years later. In the intervening period Stuart, the protagonist, has emigrated to America, remarried, opened a restaurant, got divorced and returned to England, where he has set up a successful organic food business. Meanwhile, Oliver and Gillian and their two daughters live in a small flat in north-east London, Oliver still seeks success as a writer supported by Gillian's picture restoration. Stuart appears to have forgiven Oliver for stealing his wife and offers him a job as a driver...