Julian Barnes
Hardcover | Pages: 150 pages Rating: 3.72 | 141290 Users | 15485 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Sense of an Ending |
| Author | : | Julian Barnes |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 150 pages |
| Published | : | 2011 by Jonathan Cape |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction |
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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 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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| Original Title: | The Sense of an Ending |
| ISBN: | 0224094157 (ISBN13: 9780224094153) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Anthony "Tony" Webster, Veronica Mary Ford, Adrian Finn, Colin Simpson, Joe Hunt, Phil Dixon, Sarah Ford |
| Setting: | Bristol, England Chislehurst, England(United Kingdom) London, England |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize (2011), Warwick Prize for Writing Nominee for Longlist (2013), Costa Book Award Nominee for Novel (2011), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2012), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2011) Europese Literatuurprijs (2012), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2013) |
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This is by Julian Barnes so we know it will focus on memory and its tricks. Some examples: but what you end up remembering isnt always the same as what you witnessed. And I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty. And again, I must stress that this is my reading now of what happened then. Or rather, my memory now of my reading then of what was happening at the time. The book is a Booker PrizeReviewed in January, 2012One of the things I admire about Barnes is the pared down nature of his writing. Every word counts. The division of this novella into two parts also counts. The reader could start with Part Two and the book wouldn't be any less clear. In fact, possible answers to most of the questions raised at the end of the book can be found on rereading Part One. More enlightenment comes while rereading Part Two. (The following paragraph may contain spoilers) As to the possible
This enigmatic literary fiction novel does a great job of playing with perceptions. I pulled out this short Booker Prize novel one night, thinking I'd just read a bit to get a feel for it, to know what to tell my book club about it, since I needed to suggest a choice of 4 or 5 books to my book club the next day for their vote. A few hours later I finished the book, moved but a little bewildered. In the first fifty pages the narrator, Tony, tells of some events in his high school and college
Let me begin by saying that I dont mind short, understated books novellas if you like. I do like them. What I dont like is paying the same money for a 150 page book, that could have easily been written by a skilled writer in a month, that I have to pay for a 826 page book involving loads of research full of medieval and linguistic references (yes, I am reading Nicola Barkers Darkmans). I just dont think thats fair.That said, it was a pretty decent book. It follows a very simple formula of an
This is an exploration of memory, exquisitely written as the thoughts of an old man, looking back on his life - good enough to merit 5*, despite the somewhat contrived ending (ironic, given the title).ImageryIt opens with six watery images (an unexpected word in several of them makes them more vivid), each of which form part of the story:I remember, in no particular order:- a shiny inner wrist;- steam rising from a wet sink as a frying pan is laughingly tossed into it;- gouts of sperm circling a
Such was the big fat craptastic big-reveal groanworthy lurid pulpy Victorian melodramatic you-got-to-be-kidding ending-with-no-sense that the two stars this novel was hanging on to by its fingernails up to page 130 slipped out of its grasp and it ended up with the ignominious one star, but since that puts it in the same company as many much-loved novels it may well be worn as a Badge Of Honour I envisage one of those peelable stickers on all future editions A P BRYANT ONE STAR NOVEL!! and
I think my years as a philosophy student were actually detrimental to my enjoyment of this short novel about life and memory. The stuff that has left other people reeling in amazement reminded me of little more than just another essay on the mind and the way we think, the way we interpret events and the way our memories can let us down. Mr Barnes is clearly a clever man and his writing is a touch complex but always charming. However, is this really that original anymore?I don't think so. I can
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