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The Sense of an Ending

by Julian Barnes

A past reconsidered

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Booker Prize winner

    Named as a Booker Prize winner.

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A past reconsidered

Tony Webster’s settled retirement is disrupted by a legacy that makes him revisit his younger years and the people connected to them. As old friendships become newly present, the novel turns toward memory, self-understanding, and the way a person’s account of the past can change. Its central tension lies in the gap between the life Tony believes he left behind and the questions that resurface when he is asked to reassess his own nature and place in the world.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in fiction about memory and reassessing the past
  • Readers drawn to stories about old friendships and later-life reflection

Themes

Memory and self-understandingFriendship across timeThe past and personal identity

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Book overview

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about--until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present.

A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre.

Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
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