The Sense of an Ending
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.78 (598 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307947726 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 163 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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A brilliant, understated examination of memory and how it works, how it compartmentalizes and fixes impressions to tidily store away.” —The Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Concisely written and yet rich and full of emotional depth. As Barnes so elegantly and poignantly reveals, we are all unreliable narrators, redeemed not by the accuracy of our memories but by our willingness to question them." —The Boston Globe. “Quietly mesmerizing. Clever, provocative. An elegantly composed, quietly devastating tale.” —Heller McAlpin, NPR “Dense with philosophical ideas. Barnes reminds his readers how fragile is the tissue of impressions we conveniently rely upon as bedrock.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Brief, beautiful. Now, with his powerfully compact new novel, Julian Barnes takes his place among the subtly assertive practitioner
Well, I didn't get it either Susan Tunis At 176 pages, The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes Man Booker-nominated latest is barely even a novella. Yet, there's something to be said for an author willing to tell a story in the time that is needed to tell it, and not feeling compelled to pad the narrative. Mr. Barnes has. "A beautiful work" according to Morris Massel. The Sense of an Ending is the 2011 Man Booker winner by Julian Barnes. A few months ago, I read Barnes' recent short story collection, Pulse. This novel was far superior to Pulse and worthy of the 2011 Booker. Having been shortlisted for the Booker three previous times (Flaubert. "How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts?" Tony Webster is a sixty-something retired historian. An odd bequest causes him to hark back on a friendship and his first sexual relationship from more than forty years ago. This leads to an examination -- and a demonstration -- of the patchiness of memory and its tendency to ma
But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.. Winner of the 2011 Man Booker PrizeOne of The Atlantic's Best Books I Read This YearA novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning new chapter in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. This intense novel follows Tony Webster, a middle-aged man, as he contends with a past he never thought much about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony thought he left this all behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own
Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Julian Barnes is the author of ten previous novels, three books of short stories, and three collections of journalism. In addition to the Booker Prize, his other honors include the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the E.M. He lives in London.julianbarnes