‘You put together two things that have not been put together before and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.’ In this slim book Julian Barnes puts not two but three things together: nonfiction, fiction and memoir. And sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
The first section is an elegant and breezy account of the early days of ballooning and the development of aerial photography.
Disagree with half of it, enjoy reading all of it
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