The Sense of an Ending
A retired man receives a bequest that proves his version of his own youth was a convenient edit.
Tony Webster, retired and comfortable, receives a solicitor’s letter concerning the diary of a school friend who killed himself forty years earlier, and the bequest sets about dismantling the version of his youth he has been telling himself. Barnes keeps the book short and lets the unreliability accumulate quietly, so the reveal lands as recognition rather than twist. It won the Man Booker Prize in 2011.
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Xochitl Gonzalez
I loved this wrenching, sophisticated campus novel, which is as much about memory as it is about the specifics of things remembered.
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