Notes on this edition: First edition – New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. $25.00.
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Title Page: Pulse | Julian Barnes | [in light gray under author’s name] lse | [Alfred A. Knopf device] | Alfred A. Knopf | NEW YORK · 2011
Copyright Page: [Borzoi device] | THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK | PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF | Copyright © 2011 by Julian Barnes | All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, | a division of Random House, Inc., New York. | www.aaknopf.com | Knopf, Borzoi, and the colophon are registered trademarks | of Random House, Inc. | Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, | The Random House Group Limited, London. | Some of the stories in this work were previously published in | slightly different form in the following: “Harmony” and “Marriage | Lines” in Granta; “At Phil & Joanna’s I: 60/40” and “Sleeping with | John Updike” in the Guardian; “Complicity,” “East Wind,” “The | Limner,” and “Trespass” in The New Yorker; and “At Phil & Joanna’s 2: | Marmalade” in The Sunday Times. | Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data | Barnes, Julian. | Pulse / Julian Barnes.—1st American ed. | p. cm. | ISBN 978-0-307-59526-3 | I. Title. | PR6052.A6657P85 2011 | 823’.914—dc22 2011002736 | This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents | either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used | fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, | or locales is entirely coincidental. | Jacket image: Le Malade Imaginaire by Honoré Daumier. Private | Collection. Giraudon / The Bridgeman Art Library International | Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson | Manufactured in the United States of America | First United States Edition
Collation: 21.3 x 14.3 cm. Pp. [i-x, 1-3] 4-18 [19] 20-32 [33] 34-47 [48] 49-60 [61] 62-78 [79] 80-92 [93] 94-105 [106] 107-120 [121] 122-128 [129-131] 132-144 [145] 146-157 [158] 159-184 [185] 186-195 [196] 197-227 [228-230]. [i]: blank. [ii]: ‘BY THE SAME AUTHOR | FICTION | Metroland | Before She Met Me | Flaubert’s Parrot | Staring at the Sun | A History of the World In 10½ Chapters | Talking It Over | The Porcupine | Cross Channel | England, England | Love, Etc. | The Lemon Table | Arthur & George | NON-FICTION | Letters From London 1990–1995 | Something to Declare | The Pedant in the Kitchen | Nothing to Be Frightened Of | TRANSLATION | In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet’. [iii]: ‘Pulse’. [iv]: ‘Pu’. [v]: title page. [vi]: copyright page. [vii]: ‘for Pat’. [viii]: blank. [ix]: [Contents]. [x]: blank. [1]: ‘One’. [2]: blank. 3-128: text. [129]: ‘Two’. [130]: blank. [131]-227: text. [228]: blank. [229]: [‘A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR’]. [230]: [‘A NOTE ON THE TYPE’].
General description: Binding 21.9 x 14.8 cm. Red cloth boards stamped in gold lettering to spine. White endpapers. Deckled or ‘uncut’ fore edge. Back flap of dust jacket features an author photograph by Ellen Warner. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Stories included: East Wind | At Phil & Joanna’s 1: 60/40 | Sleeping with John Updike | At Phil & Joanna’s 2: Marmalade | Gardeners’ World | At Phil & Joanna’s 3: Look, No Hands | Trespass | At Phil & Joanna’s 4: One in Five | Marriage Lines | The Limner | Complicity | Harmony | Carcassonne | Pulse