The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. A monumental novel capturing how one man comes to terms with the mutable past. 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 retired. 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.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- ISBN-13
- 9781446467626
- Genre
- Topics
- Memory and the unreliability of the pastFriendship and agingGuilt and self-reckoning
Awards
- The Booker PrizeWonMajor(2011)
Other awarded books from Julian Barnes
- Arthur & George (2005)0 wins · 8 score
- England, England (2009)0 wins · 4 score
- Flaubert's Parrot (2010)0 wins · 4 score
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