Death

Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between

When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this book, the author confronts our unending obsession with the end. It reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents.

When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents. Barnes is the perfect guide to the weirdness of the only thing that binds us all.

Selected from the book Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes

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A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human

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Drinking by John Cheever
Babies by Anne Enright
Psychedelics by Aldous Huxley