Through the Window Seventeen Essays (and One Short Story)

Julian Barnes examines British, French and American writers who have meant the most to him, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Hemingway, from Kipling's view of France to the French view of Kipling, Julian Barnes considers what fiction is, and what it can do.