![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At the end of the book, I felt that I was friends of all characters, which was unexpected, considering the short length of the book. So much happened to the main character Tony, as the story followed from adolescence to his old age. It didn’t feel like reading a novella, even though it was a quick read. Sense of an Ending is a short book, with just 50 pages and could even be described as a novella. This novel is totally unputdownable, even on the second read. As the above summary suggests, both times that I have read this book, I have felt compelled to read this book in a single sitting. This is the second time that I’ve read this book. 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.Ī 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. 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. 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. ![]()
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