“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..”
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