Before She Met Me.

BARNES, Julian.

Item Number: 127618

London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.

First edition of this early novel by the author of Flaubert’s Parrot. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Julian Barnes on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Craig Dodd. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer.

At the start of this fiendishly comic and suspenseful novel, a mild-mannered English academic chuckles as he watches his wife commit adultery. The action takes place before she met him. But lines between film and reality, past and present become terrifyingly blurred in this sad and funny tour de force from the author of Flaubert's Parrot.