The Sense of an Ending — Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending — Julian Barnes
Title: The Sense of an Ending
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-099-57033-2
Binding: Softcover
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
Condition: Good second-hand condition. Light shelf wear, minor creasing and marks to covers with clean internal pages and a firm binding.
A quietly devastating literary novel about memory, regret, time, and the stories people tell themselves in order to live with the past.
Tony 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.
Written with precision and restraint, The Sense of an Ending 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.
Compact but layered, it is often regarded as one of the defining literary novels of the 2010s.