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Love, etc (novel)

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print, Audio & eBook

ISBN
  
0-224-03101-5

Author
  
Julian Barnes

Genre
  
Speculative fiction

Preceded by
  
Talking It Over

Publication date
  
2000 (UK), 2001 (US)

Pages
  
249

Originally published
  
2000

Page count
  
249

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Publisher
  
Jonathan Cape (UK) Knopf (US)

Similar
  
Julian Barnes books, Other books

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.

Plot

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...

References

Love, etc (novel) Wikipedia