Levels of Life

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...<BR><BR> 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.<BR><BR> This is a book of intense honesty and insight; it is at once a celebration of love and a profound examination of sorrow.<BR><BR>**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**