Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 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 in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is ...
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 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 in middle age. 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. The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. Laced with trademark precision, dexterity and insight, it is the work of one of the world's most distinguished writers.
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None. Fine in Fine jacket. Signed first impression of this Booker Prize winning novel by Julian Barnes. Winner of the Booker Prize in 2011. The first edition, first impression of this work. Narrating of retired Tony Webster's reminiscences on his life and on his friend's Adrian Finn, with whom he vowed to remain friends for life. Â Written by award-winning British author Julian Barnes. Signed by the author to title page. Â Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. Â In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only. Signed by the author to title page. Dust wrapper unclipped and excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine.
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None. Fine in Fine jacket. A signed first edition, first impression, of Julian Barnes' Man Booker Prize winning novel, 'The Sense of an Ending', in the original unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work. Signed by the author to the title page. In the original unclipped dustwrapper. Winner of the Man Booker Prize. 'The Sense of an Ending' is narrated by a retired man, Tony Webster. The novel sees his reflection of his time at school with his clique and Adrian Finn, a group who vowed to remain friends for life. Written by Julian Barnes, an English author. He is best known for his novels 'Flaubert's Parrots', 'England, England', and 'Arthur & George'. He also writes crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Dustwrapper is smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine.
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"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." This is one of several difficult teachings offered and expounded in Julian Barnes' short, self-referential novel, "The Sense of an Ending". The book includes many reflections upon the nature of time, history, the possibility of self-understanding and moral responsibility. Yet the book is short and draws the reader into the story. Every scene in the book needs to be read carefully to make sense of the studied ambiguity of the close.
The book is recounted in the first person by a retired, long divorced man in his 60's, Tony Webster. The story unfolds in two parts. In the first part, Tony recounts in what he admits is a selective manner the story of his life through college. The story focuses on his boyhood friendships and on their youthful intellectual pretensions. One of the circle of friends, Adrian Finn, is in fact intellectually gifted while the other three lads, including Tony, are basically ordinary. Tony comes to young manhood in the 1960s and finds a girlfriend, Veronica, who frustrates him by her unwillingness to have sex. Tony spends what might appear to be a routine weekend at the home of Veronica's family which will prove to have large implications for the story. Tony and Veronica break up while Veronica and Adrian become involved. Ultimately Tony marries a woman, Margaret with whom he has a daughter before the couple divorce. Tony has a solid if undistinguished career before his retirement.
The second and longer part of the book unravels and develops the tensions from Tony's earlier life. It develops tautly and inexorably. The book makes a great deal of the device of the unreliable narrator. Tony's possible unreliability is hinted at from the beginning and becomes increasingly apparent as the story progresses. Events require Tony to make sense of the events from his youth and early manhood selectively described in the first part of the book. Possible final understandings of the story are elliptically and cunningly stated.
Questions about the possibility and reliability of historical knowledge, among other things, get expanded into questions about self-understanding. Many early scenes and philosophical discussions are mirrored as Tony develops his story.
The book held my attention. The ambiguities of the ending can be parsed out with some reflection and consideration of the foreshadowing earlier in the book. The book produces a feeling of uneasiness and disturbance, which doubtless was what the author intended. I found the book bloated and philosophically overdone, in its post-modernism, for the story it told. I wanted to try to understand Tony's life without the large theories. Even so, the book effectively combines tension and suspense in its development with reflections upon the nature and possibility of self-knowledge.
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Katharina W
Mar 21, 2013
not my cup of tea
Whilst I can appreciate the writing skills of Julian Barnes, I did not enjoy the book. For my reading taste, it is too much of a downer. However, that said, it has some comical moments in it, and it is artfully written. It was a book group choice, and in our discussion, there was still a lot of confusion as to what exactly happened and who did what, so clearly, the author did not manage to convey all the necessary details - or left us in the dark deliberately.
