The Sense of an Ending: The classic Booker Prize-winning novel - Softcover

Barnes, Julian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099570335 ISBN 13: 9780099570332

Publisher: Vintage, 2012

Synopsis

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life.

Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove.

The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. Laced with trademark precision, dexterity and insight, it is the work of one of the world's most distinguished writers.

About this title

Review:

"A masterpiece... I would urge you to read - and re-read - The Sense of an Ending" (Daily Telegraph)

"Mesmerising... the concluding scenes grip like a thriller - a whodunit of memory and morality" (Independent)

"A very fine book, skilfully plotted, boldly conceived... Barnes has achieved...something of universal importance" (Justin Cartwright Observer)

"A precise, poignant portrait of the costs and benefits of time passing, of friendship, of love. A small masterpiece" (Erica Wagner The Times)

"A wonderful story that is all too human and all so real" (Irish Times)

Book Description:

A brilliant short novel from a writer at the very height of his powers. Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0099570335
• ISBN 13: 9780099570332
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160