num_pages: 150
description: By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur &amp; George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and most recently Pulse. 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. 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. 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. A 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.
language: English
title: The Sense of an Ending
publisher: Jonathan Cape