JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty previous books including, most recently, Keeping an Eye Open. He has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the David Cohen Prize for Literature and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in France, the Prix Médicis and the Prix Femina; and in Austria, the State Prize for European Literature. In 2004 he was named Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London.
“Elegant, playful, and remarkable.” —The New Yorker
“A page-turner, and when you finish you will return immediately to
the beginning.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Beautiful. . . . An elegantly composed, quietly devastating tale.”
—Heller McAlpin, NPR
“Dense with philosophical ideas. . . . It manages to create genuine
suspense as a sort of psychological detective story.” —Michiko
Kakutani, The New York Times
“Evelyn Waugh did it in Brideshead Revisited, as did Philip Larkin
in Jill [and] Kazuo Ishiguro in The Remains of the Day. Now, with
his powerfully compact new novel, Julian Barnes takes his place
among the subtly assertive practitioners of this quiet art.” —The
New York Times Book Review
“[A] jewel of conciseness and precision. . . . The Sense of an
Ending packs into so few pages so much that the reader finishes it
with a sense of satisfaction more often derived from novels several
times its length.” —The Los Angeles Times
“Exquisitely crafted, sophisticated, suspenseful, and achingly
painful, The Sense of an Ending is a meditation on history, memory,
and individual responsibility.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Clever, provocative. . . . A brilliant, understated examination of
memory and how it works, how it compartmentalizes and fixes
impressions to tidily store away.” —The Minneapolis
Star-Tribune
“Concisely written and yet rich and full of emotional depth. . . .
It’s highly original as well. And complicated, just like life.”
—New York Journal of Books
“Ominous and disturbing…. This outwardly tidy and
conventional story is one of Barnes’s most indelible [and] looms
oppressively in our minds.” —The Wall Street Journal
“At 163 pages, The Sense of an Ending is the longest book I have
ever read, so prepare yourself for rereading. You won’t regret it.”
—Jane Juska, The San Francisco Chronicle
“With his characteristic grace and skill, Barnes manages to turn
this cat-and-mouse game into something genuinely suspenseful.” —The
Washington Post
“Ferocious. . . . A book for the ages.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Concisely written and yet rich and full of emotional depth. . . .
At times, side-splittingly funny, at others, brutally honest, but
always delightfully well observed. . . . Ironically, despite
focusing on endings, and on suicide, this is a tremendously
life-affirming work. It’s highly original as well. And complicated,
just like life.” —New York Journal of Books
“Elegiac yet potent, The Sense of an Ending probes the mysteries of
how we remember and our impulse to redact, correct – and sometimes
entirely erase – our pasts. . . . Barnes’s highly wrought
meditation on aging gives just as much resonance to what is unknown
and unspoken as it does to the momentum of its own plot.”
—Vogue
“Novel, fertile and memorable . . . . A highly wrought meditation
on aging, memory and regret.” —The Guardian (London)
“A brilliant, understated examination of memory and how it works,
how it compartmentalizes and fixes impressions to tidily store
away. . . . Clever, provocative. . . . Barnes reminds his readers
how fragile is the tissue of impressions we conveniently rely upon
as bedrock.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"Brief, beautiful. . . . That fundamentally chilling question—Am I
the person I think I am?—turns out to be a surprisingly suspenseful
one. . . . As Barnes so elegantly and poignantly reveals, we are
all unreliable narrators, redeemed not by the accuracy of our
memories but by our willingness to question them." —The Boston
Globe.
“Quietly mesmerizing. . . . A slow burn, measured but suspenseful,
this compact novel makes every slyly crafted sentence count.” —The
Independent (London)
"Deliciously intriguing...with complex and subtle undertones [and]
laced with Barnes' trademark wit and graceful writing." —The
Washington Times
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