February 2012
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The Sense of an Ending
I saw a copy of Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending lying around at a friend’s house. Not having read anything by the author previously, I knew of the book only as last year’s Man Booker Prize winner. I borrowed it and read through it in two sessions over two days.
Told in first person by an aging narrator, The Sense of an Ending is a series of recollections and reflections of...
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“This may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we...”
– Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending (2011). I find that at this stage in my life I regularly engage in both of these exercises.
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“History isn’t the lies of the victors…I know that now. It’s more the memories of...”
– Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending (2011)