Love, etc.

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi (last blank)], 250. Black cloth boards, titled in gilt to spine; scarlet endpapers. Jacket design by Suzanne Dean, featuring a photograph by Ashley Rudolph (priced £15.99 to front flap). Just prior to publication, the author decided to drop the full-stop after "etc", by which time a small number of full-sized, variant dust jackets had been distributed to reviewers. The period was added back to the title for the Alfred A. Knopf edition in the U.S.

Signed by Author to title-page.

Author's ninth novel. Written as an intimate series of crosscutting monologues, Barnes picks up the love triangle in Talking it Over a decade hence, as each character takes turns, Rashomon-like, to address the reader and argue for their version of the truth.

Shortlisted three times previously for the Man Booker Prize (Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005)), Barnes finally won it in 2011 with The Sense of an Ending. "An alarmingly perfect novel [...] Barnes's verbal mimicry is inventive, accomplished, revelatory, and also fun." –The New York Review of Books