The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes · 2011
Buy on AmazonBy 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.…
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"Julian Barnes has some of his cruel and humane humor. I liked Barnes's "The Sense of an Ending" very much."
By the Book: Orhan Pamuk · nytimes.com