Discussing The Sense of an Ending

Led by former Greenlight general manager Alexis and hosted by our neighbors at Angelina Bakery, our fiction book group meets monthly to discuss paperback fiction, reading broadly in contemporary fiction with the occasional diversion into classics. For February, the group discusses Julian Barnes’ Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending, which follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he 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 left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his nature and place in the world. The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes’s oeuvre.

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Time: 7:00 pm EST

Free!

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