Staring at the Sun (novel)
Staring at The Sun is a novel by Julian Barnes published in 1986.[1]
First edition (publ. Jonathan Cape)
Plot summary
Julian Barnes examines the ordinary life of Jean Serjeant from her childhood in the 1920s through her adulthood to the year 2020[2]. Throughout her life, Jean learns to question the world's idea of truth while she explores the beauty and miracles of everyday life.[2]
gollark: Also, it's nice if you can program application logic faster rather than wrangle pointers.
gollark: No, it does, but you're dealing with untrusted input and need safety more than an extra millisecond.
gollark: Really, applicationy stuff should be done with... not C, so C can do what it's mildly okay at, weird low level stuff.
gollark: > perl
gollark: If you just create, say, a 32kB array for some input, but it's possible to send more than that and you don't check very carefully everywhere (because C string manipulation functions are horrible and so are C strings), then BUFFER OVERFLOW!
References
- Hamilton, Ian (6 November 1986). "Real Questions". London Review of Books. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- "Julian Barnes: Staring at the Sun". www.julianbarnes.com. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
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