Метроленд by Julian Barnes
A wry, nostalgic first-person account of a young man raised in a comfortable London suburb who, alongside a charismatic friend, experiments with youthful rebellion and bohemian escape before returning to England and confronting the pull of conventional middle‑class life; the narrator looks back on adolescent idealism, romantic disillusionment, and the compromises of adulthood, probing how memory and self-deception reshape the story we tell about who we once were and who we have become.
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- Published
- 1980
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 176-192 pages
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
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- Metroland
- Метроленд
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