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An NPR Best Book of the YearJulian Barnes, writer of the Person Booker Prize–winning story The Sense of an Ending, provides us his most incredibly moving book however, from the nineteenth-century and leading effortlessly into an entirely individual consideration of loss—making Degrees of Life an instantaneous classic on the topic of grief. Levels of Life is just a book about ballooning, images, love and loss; about placing two points, and two individuals, together, and about ripping them apart. He was described by one of the judges who awarded Barnes the Booker Prize as “an unmatched magus of the heart.” This book confirms that viewpoint.  “Spare and stunning,a book of uncommon intimacy and integrity about love and grief.  To see it's a privilege.  To possess created it's astonishing.” —Ruth Scurr, The Times of London“An amazing story that's as natural in its feeling as it's usually sophisticated in its execution.”  —Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times