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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)

The Sense of an Ending Hardcover | Pages: 150 pages

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Title	:	The Sense of an Ending
Author	:	Julian Barnes
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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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

Maybe, like Tony, I just don't get it, but this was a whole lot of Man Booker-winning to-do about very little. Pretentious, upper middle-class schoolboys behave badly, and -- through too much ego and too little self-knowledge and empathy, too many book smarts and not enough life experience -- inflict cruelty on ex-girlfriends and others as they cavalierly grow out of their coddled adolescence into a ho-hum average life. It then comes back to haunt them - or one of them, anyway - in late

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

Reviewed 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

I bought this book at Paddington railway station, to read on the way home. It's not my normal type of book but I knew it had won the man Booker Prize and I'd seen some positive comment in the press. It's a short book (one of the reasons I bought it) and it quickly confirmed itself to me as a wise purchase; I was laughing out loud after a few pages, totally hooked. Barnes is obviously a clever guy and I found I had to look up a few words along the way (I was home by then). But as a former

The Sense of an Ending It's probably safe to say that most of us have, at some point in our lives, done or said things we have come to regret. That phone call you made when you were extremely upset. That bitter email you shouldn't have written. That text message you were too prompt to send. If you had the opportunity of visiting a younger version of yourself and review what that other you said, felt, discovered, did or didn't do, how do you think it would measure up against the older you? Would