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Julian Barnes’ Levels of Life is a memoir on ballooning, photography, love and grief. Summary of the Book In this book, Julian Barnes discusses happiness and sadness in life through professional ballooning and photography. He writes about freedom, dividing the book into three parts: “The Sin of Height”, “On The Level” and “The Loss of Depth”. He discusses loss, showing how to cope with it and explains how he has faced these emotions himself. Deeply personal and revealing, this book is part-memoir and part-philosophical treatise on the various emotions of being human, from the highest points of happiness to the lowest pits of grief. About Julian Barnes Julian Patrick Barnes, also known as Dan Kavanagh and Edward Pygge, is an English crime novelist. Barnes is known for writing The Sense of an Ending, Flaubert’s Parrot and Arthur & George. Barnes was awarded the Man Booker Prize, the title of a Commander of L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.