Book description
Gregory ponders as he sits in the barber's chair at various stages of
his life. His youthful preoccupation with the adult world gives way to
the brash chippiness of the university student, and on, finally, to a
man whose children are the same age as the girl holding the scissors.
A charming take on the slow development of self.
Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously
published in the collection The Lemon Table.
Julian Barnes is the author of ten previous novels, including
Metroland, Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in
10½ Chapters and Arthur & George; three books of
short stories, Cross Channel, The Lemon Table and
Pulse; and also three collections of journalism, Letters
from London, Something to Declare, and The Pedant in the
Kitchen.
His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In
France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Médicis (for
Flaubert's Parrot) and the Prix Femina (for Talking it
Over). He was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European
Literature in 2004, the David Cohen Prize for Literature and the Man
Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. He lives in London.
