The Sense of an Ending

English

ISBN: 0307957330

EAN: 9780307957337

Category: Fiction / Literary/Fiction / Psychological/

Publisher: Vintage

Release Date: 10/05/2011

Synopsis: Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize

By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse.
 
This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he’d left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he’d understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
 
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, The Sense of an Ending is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnes’s oeuvre.

Awards: American Library Association Notable Books – null  Costa Book Awards – null  Galaxy National Book Award – null  Man Booker Prize for Fiction – null  New York Times Notable Books of the Year – null 

The Sense of an Ending

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - EPUB

Pages: 160