The Sense of an Ending

Description:

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 new 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.

subjects: Middle-aged men,  Life change events,  Male friendship,  Fiction,  Middle aged men,  Friendship,  Psychological fiction,  Memory,  New York Times bestseller,  nyt:hardcover_fiction=2012-02-04,  Fiction, psychological,  Friendship, fiction,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Large type books,  18.05 English literature