Elizabeth Finch

Praise

“[Barnes’s] ambitions expand and contract from novel to novel.” —New York Times
 
“Mr. Barnes has always enjoyed playing with form and style, the porous border between fiction and nonfiction. . . . Over the course of Elizabeth Finch, Mr. Barnes frequently reminds us of the potency of mythmaking.” —Wall Street Journal

“Elegant. . . . Elizabeth Finch is erudite yet accessible.” —Star Tribune

“A lyrical, thoughtful, and intriguing exploration of love, grief, and the collective myths of history. Barnes adds yet another remarkable title to his astoundingly remarkable body of work.” —Booklist

“A novel of ideas . . . with barely a sentence in it that doesn’t have some nutritional value . . . I’ll remember Elizabeth Finch when most other characters I’ve met this year have faded.” —John Self, The Times (UK)

“A singular tale.” —Daily Mail (UK)

“Everything Barnes writes changes everything . . . Barnes’s latest novel, must be read at least twice for the full force of its voltage to be felt . . . A cryptic crossword of a novel, Elizabeth Finch is a trickier and even brainier version of Flaubert’s Parrot.” —Frances Wilson, Oldie
 
“The book’s central and most enthralling section . . . deals with a figure Elizabeth Finch esteemed as a kindred spirit: Julian the Apostate . . . A bravura exercise in nimbly handled erudition . . . [Elizabeth Finch] also celebrates the cast of mind Barnes most prizes. A connoisseur and master of irony himself, he fills this book with instances of its exhilarating power.” —Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
 
“Elizabeth Finch ranks alongside Barnes’ best.” —Joshua Pugh Ginn, UK Press Syndication
 
“A new novel from Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes is always a literary event, and Elizabeth Finch . . . is not different. Wistful, thought-provoking stuff.” —Sunday Telegraph
 
“This is . . . Julian Barnes . . . in his best ambitious high concept mode, serious and playful at once.” —Lindsay Duguid, Tablet, *Novel of the Week*