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    "annotation": "<P>\nCollects such stories as: \"East Wind\", \"The Limner\", \"Marriage Lines\", \"Gardener's World\", and more.</P>",
    "description": "Ranging from the domestic to the extraordinary, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in winter, the stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection resonate and spark. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on new beginnings and endings. A divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress, but cannot resist the chance to delve into her past; a widower visits a remote Scottish island to relive a favourite holiday; two writers return from an event rehearsing familiar arguments; a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches.   Positioned in between are a series of evenings at \"Phil & Joanna's\", where among the topics of conversation - the environment, politics, the Britishness of marmalade, toilet graffiti, smoking - we witness the guests' lives shift in sections over the course of a year.  ",
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    "publication_date_first": "2011-07-15",
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