{"product_id":"the-sense-of-an-ending-julian-barnes","title":"The Sense of an Ending — Julian Barnes","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"62\" data-end=\"185\"\u003eTitle: The Sense of an Ending\u003cbr data-start=\"91\" data-end=\"94\"\u003eAuthor: Julian Barnes\u003cbr data-start=\"115\" data-end=\"118\"\u003ePublisher: Vintage\u003cbr data-start=\"136\" data-end=\"139\"\u003eISBN: 978-0-099-57033-2\u003cbr data-start=\"162\" data-end=\"165\"\u003eBinding: Softcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"187\" data-end=\"223\"\u003eWinner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"225\" data-end=\"362\"\u003eCondition: Good second-hand condition. Light shelf wear, minor creasing and marks to covers with clean internal pages and a firm binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"364\" data-end=\"499\"\u003eA quietly devastating literary novel about memory, regret, time, and the stories people tell themselves in order to live with the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"501\" data-end=\"854\"\u003eTony Webster is retired, divorced, and living a calm, uneventful life when a letter unexpectedly reconnects him to events from his school and university years. As old friendships, relationships, and buried resentments resurface, Tony is forced to confront how unreliable memory can be — and how differently the past may appear when viewed decades later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"856\" data-end=\"1151\"\u003eWritten with precision and restraint, \u003cem data-start=\"894\" data-end=\"918\"\u003eThe Sense of an Ending\u003c\/em\u003e became one of Julian Barnes’ most acclaimed works, winning the Man Booker Prize in 2011. The novel is both intimate and philosophical, balancing sharp emotional insight with meditations on history, ageing, guilt, and self-deception.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1153\" data-end=\"1247\"\u003eCompact but layered, it is often regarded as one of the defining literary novels of the 2010s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Astaroth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49082560774367,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/6815\/6383\/files\/IMG_5829.jpg?v=1778063247","url":"https:\/\/astarothbooks.com\/products\/the-sense-of-an-ending-julian-barnes","provider":"Astaroth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}