Love, etc (novel)

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This article is about the novel by Julian Barnes. For the Pet Shop Boys song, see Love etc..

Love, etc
First edition (UK)
Author	Julian Barnes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Jonathan Cape (UK) Knopf (US)
Publication date	2000 (UK), 2001 (US)
Media type	Print, Audio & eBook
Pages	249
ISBN	0-224-03101-5
Preceded by	Talking it Over

Love, etc is a novel by Julian Barnes published in 2000, although it is also the title of a French film based on his earlier novel Talking it Over.

Plot introduction

Love, etc was written some ten years after Talking it Over and is set ten years later. In the intervening period Stuart, the protagonist, has emigrated to America, remarried, opened a restaurant, got divorced and returned to England where he has set up a successful organic food business. Meanwhile Oliver and Gillian and their two daughters live in a small flat in north-east London, Oliver still seeks success as a writer supported by Gillian's picture restoration. Stuart appears to have forgiven Oliver for stealing his wife and offers him a job as a driver...

External links

The Complete Review (containing links to reviews in The Guardian, The Observer and The New York Times and quotes from many others)
Julian Barnes Website: Love, etc

v t e Julian Barnes

Novels	Metroland (1980) Flaubert's Parrot (1984) Staring at the Sun (1986) A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (1989) Talking It Over (1991) The Porcupine (1992) England, England (1998) Love, etc (2000) Arthur & George (2005) The Sense of an Ending (2011)

Short story collections	Cross Channel (1996) The Lemon Table (2004) Pulse (2011)

Essays	Something to Declare (2002) Through the Window (2012)

Journalism	Letters from London (1995) The Pedant in the Kitchen (2003)

Memoir	Nothing to Be Frightened Of (2008)

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