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Sarah Allen  |  Features  |  Secular Shelf Life
Date posted:  1 Jun 2013
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LEVELS OF LIFE
By Julian Barnes
Jonathan Cape. 118 pages. £10.99
ISBN 978 0 224 098 151

\u2018You put together two things that have not been together before. And the world is changed\u2026\u2019

So begins Julian Barnes in his hard-to-categorise book Levels of Life. The library would shelve it under memoirs, but that it is not accurate. No, rather, this is in parts essay, history and short story. And while that might immediately seem whimsical or over-literary, please do not be put off, because this is a very poised, moving and serious book about love and grief.

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