Author: Julian Barnes
Title: Metroland
Description: London, Jonathan Cape, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A fine, first edition copy of Julian Barnes' debut novel 'Metroland&apos. Flat-signed by Barnes to the title page. The first edition, first impression.Flat-signed by Barnes to the title page. 'Metroland' is set in Middlesex, a strip of suburban dormitory served by the Metropolitan Line. The setting parallels his own youth as a young man from the London suburbs. Christopher is the protagonist of this tale, and he travels to Paris as a student before finally returning to London. The book deals with themes of idealism and sexual fidelity. The flyleaf refers to this novel as 'an ingeniously wrought first novel - one to make us stop, puzzle, laugh and reconsider the state of growing up&apos. A fantastic first novel from this Booker Prize winning author, Julian Patrick Barnes. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, fine. Dustwrapper is fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.

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