{"product_id":"9780224091084-secondhand-pulse","title":"Pulse","description":"The stories in Julian Barnes long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents- of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on by success and loss, by new beginnings and endings. In East Wind a divorced estate agent falls in love with a European waitress, but is tempted, despite his happiness, to investigate her past; in The Limner a deaf painter discovers his patron s likeness after spending time among his staff. Anchored off the coast of Brazil, Garibaldi spies his future wife through a telescope, and in Marriage Lines , a widower returns to a remote Scottish Island to relive a favourite holiday. These are also lives in flux - in the stages, transitions, arguments; incompatibilities which grow - as in the title story, where a man reflects on the break-up of his marriage, brought into new perspective by the actions of his parents; two writers, a good team , return from an event rehearsing familiar arguments; in Gardener s World , a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches. Positioned in between are a series of evenings at Phil \u0026amp; Joanna","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48979926548699,"sku":"9780224091084-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/02762d00-7b43-4ba7-8668-3a1879b74dda.jpg?v=1784220164","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780224091084-secondhand-pulse","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}