A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10 1/2 CHAPTERS <i> by Julian Barnes (Alfred A. Knopf: $18.95; 309 pp.) </i>
“We are tumbled amid the writer’s humor, anger, irony, homely invention and a large lament for the cycle of human endeavor that dreams, corrupts what it dreams of, and dreams again.”
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