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'''''Before She Met Me''''' is a novel by English writer [[Julian Barnes]], first published in 1982 by [[Jonathan Cape]].<ref>http://catalogue.bl.uk/primo_library</ref> It is a black comedy which scrutinizes the awakening of sexual jealousy in a dull and otherwise sensible college lecturer.<ref>http://www.julianbarnes.com/bib/bsmm.html</ref> |
'''''Before She Met Me''''' is a novel by English writer [[Julian Barnes]], first published in 1982 by [[Jonathan Cape]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://catalogue.bl.uk/primo_library|title=Explore the British Library}}</ref> It is a black comedy which scrutinizes the awakening of sexual jealousy in a dull and otherwise sensible college lecturer.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.julianbarnes.com/bib/bsmm.html |title=Julian Barnes Website: Before She Met Me |access-date=2014-05-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508223137/http://www.julianbarnes.com/bib/bsmm.html |archive-date=2014-05-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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==Overview== |
==Overview== |
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After fifteen years of marriage to a nagging woman who despises everything about him Graham Hendrick files for divorce and marries Ann, a beautiful former actress and seemingly the woman of his dreams. Initially he believes this to be the start of the good life and congratulates himself daily, hourly but as he learns more about Ann’s past he starts to obsess over the time before he knew her, resenting her previous love affairs, apparently unable to accept that she enjoyed a life at all before they met. |
After fifteen years of marriage to a nagging woman who despises everything about him, Graham Hendrick files for divorce and marries Ann, a beautiful former actress and seemingly the woman of his dreams. Initially he believes this to be the start of the good life and congratulates himself daily, hourly but as he learns more about Ann’s past he starts to obsess over the time before he knew her, resenting her previous love affairs, apparently unable to accept that she enjoyed a life at all before they met. |
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As Graham imagines non-existent humiliations and concocts plans for revenge upon previous lovers his increasingly strange behaviour begins to alarm first his wife and then his friend Jack, whom he soon suspects of cuckolding him.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/17/books/books-of-the-times-956086.html</ref> |
As Graham imagines non-existent humiliations and concocts plans for revenge upon previous lovers his increasingly strange behaviour begins to alarm first his wife and then his friend Jack, whom he soon suspects of cuckolding him.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/17/books/books-of-the-times-956086.html|title = Books of the Times|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 17 December 1986|last1 = Kakutani|first1 = Michiko}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 16:17, 5 June 2024
 First edition | |
| Author | Julian Barnes |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 1982 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 183 pp |
| ISBN | 0224019856 |
Before She Met Me is a novel by English writer Julian Barnes, first published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape.[1] It is a black comedy which scrutinizes the awakening of sexual jealousy in a dull and otherwise sensible college lecturer.[2]
Overview
[edit]After fifteen years of marriage to a nagging woman who despises everything about him, Graham Hendrick files for divorce and marries Ann, a beautiful former actress and seemingly the woman of his dreams. Initially he believes this to be the start of the good life and congratulates himself daily, hourly but as he learns more about Ann’s past he starts to obsess over the time before he knew her, resenting her previous love affairs, apparently unable to accept that she enjoyed a life at all before they met. As Graham imagines non-existent humiliations and concocts plans for revenge upon previous lovers his increasingly strange behaviour begins to alarm first his wife and then his friend Jack, whom he soon suspects of cuckolding him.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Explore the British Library".
- ^ "Julian Barnes Website: Before She Met Me". Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
- ^ Kakutani, Michiko (17 December 1986). "Books of the Times". The New York Times.
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