The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes 2011

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
loss literary fiction philosophical ageing

Our Take

Tony Webster thinks he remembers his life correctly. He does not. Barnes writes ageing as the slow discovery that the story you told yourself was wrong, and that the damage you caused was greater than you knew. A slim, devastating novel about the lies memory tells to protect us from ourselves.

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